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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

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Empirical evidence on the relationship between mobile termination rates and firms' profits

Andersson, Kjetil; Foros, Øystein; Hansen, Bjørn - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 1, pp. 129-149

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The impact of network competition in the mobile industry

Houpis, George; Rodriguez, Jose Maria; Ovington, Thomas; … - 2014

In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 countries, representing less than 3% of the world’s population, are served by a single network. There has been considerable discussion about the optimal number of network operators...

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Fiber to the people : the development of the ultra-broadband network in Italy

Cambini, Carlo; Polo, Michele; Sassano, Antonio - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 32 (2016) 2, pp. 179-209

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Regulation of Latin American's Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Sector : an empirical analysis

Alleman, James H. (contributor); … - International Telecommunications Society - 2014

In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The … empirically evaluates the impact of regulation in selected Latin American countries. The results are only suggestive, but not … conclusive - that weaker regulation supports investment in the ICT sector due to higher prices for the service. …

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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...

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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations

Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002

Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...

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How to fill the digital gap? : the (limited) role of regulation

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Melani, Sauro - 2016

This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...

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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure …

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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home

Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …

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