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This paper analyses the role of the European Commission in taking cases of abuse of dominance in the telecommunications … sector since its liberalisation in 1998. The argument is that the Commission has played a very active antitrust role, in … squeeze, the most common form of abuse in telecommunications; and they have allowed wide discretion to the Commission to deal …
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Since 1997, the U.S. government has attempted to use the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on telecommunications … services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States … took the position in 1997 that the WTO telecommunications agreement requires its signatory nations to follow the practices …
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Mexico's recent Telecommunications Reform (2013). Specifically, the Reform: (a) aims to introduce regulation to intensify … the aim of bridging the access gap. It thus represents the most significant shake-up of the telecommunications industry in … the last 20 years, ever since the privatization of public telecommunications firm Telmex (1990) and the ratification of …
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description of the evolution of access regulation in the telecommunications industry in the EU and package delivery services in … the EU to examine lessons from the telecommunications access regulation experience for package delivery. We find that … to social welfare for markets, such as broadband telecommunications, which are the object of substantial investment and …
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The present paper (presented in ITU's & INA 2009 workshop on “Migration to Next Generation Regulatory Environment”) tries to identify the effects of the concentration experienced so far in the EU telecom sector and offers a high level strategy proposition for alternative revenue sources in...
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Internet access service is not a telecommunications service, subject to numerous regulations applicable to ILECs, but rather an …The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television … taken to abolish asymmetric regulation of ILEC provision of broadband Internet access? The Federal Communications Commission …
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After nearly six years of telecommunications deregulation in the United States, centering on the Telecommunications Act … telecommunications and strive to avoid repeating them. Regulation of telecommunications in the United States has been embodied in a …
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Hong Kong has only had cross-sector competition law since 2015, but the city’s telecommunications markets have been … subject to sector-specific antitrust provisions for over two decades. The importance of nurturing an efficient, innovative … the protection of competition in the telecommunications sector in Hong Kong. The results of the liberalization process are …
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In recent decades the relationship between competition law and regulation has become a very controversial issue, in particular in respect of the interface between competition rules and sector-specific regulation in liberalized network industries. The paper examines the controversial practice of...
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exclusion from the downstream market.In the telecommunications sector, where large ex-State firms still enjoy considerable … this problem in considerably different ways. Dismayed by the idea of an antitrust court intervening in a company's price … coherent and verifiable antitrust assessment of the price differentials that potentially amount to a margin squeeze.This paper …
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