consumers and businesses directly affected by such regulation. The analysis also shows that over time unbundled loop prices are …

, telecommunications, natural gas and oil. This article provides an assessment of these developments, aiming to ascertain what goals policy …

This paper reviews comparative approaches to key issues in economic regulation in four countries of the Southern … innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are … evaluated with a focus on regulation of spectrum assignment, infrastructure sharing, call termination rates, and number …

lower calls prices. This was done by introducing wholesale regulation and promoting service based competition. Some years … retail minus or complete deregulation. -- access regulation ; vertical integration ; foreclosure ; price squeeze … ; telecommunications ; fixed networks …

minus and deregulation as potential alternatives. -- access regulation ; foreclosure ; margin squeeze ; telecommunications …This paper looks at the effects of different forms of wholesale and retail regulation on retail competition in fixed … increases. We argue that a wholesale price regulation at average costs is not optimal in such a situation and discuss retail …

over decades. One party wants telecommunications “devolved” to Northern Ireland, other would leave it at the United Kingdom …. There is network governance economic regulation at the global, EU, ministerial and regulator levels, though generally … devolved legislatures in telecommunications governance, which is complex and lies partially beyond democratic oversight and …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …

In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing …

This paper seeks to study the institutional aspects of the regulatory reforms undertaken in the telecommunications … sector in the European Union. It discusses the core functions of the telecommunications regulatory authorities established by … bodies. It also attempts to speculate on how the status and role of NRAs will evolve as telecommunications markets become …

market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications ….C. Circuit recognized over twenty years ago: Complex regulation must still be credible regulation and any failure by the FCC to …