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Panel data analysis for the U.S. states indicates that the speed of broadband diffusion is clearly driven by inter-platform competition while competition on the platform has an ambiguous if not negative impact. The diffusion speed diminishes with the number of firms and the size of the firms....
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Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based (“next generation access”, NGA) telecommunications …
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Developments in the EU telecommunications markets require a recurrent redesign of the regulatory framework for … telecommunications services. In this regard, the analysis of the substitution effects between different types of telephony is the …
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implemented by the FCC with a conceptual model of competition in telecommunications with is different from the one pursued by the …
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about the project implemented by the FCC with a conceptual model of competition in telecommunications with is different from …
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This paper analyses the role of the European Commission in taking cases of abuse of dominance in the telecommunications … squeeze, the most common form of abuse in telecommunications; and they have allowed wide discretion to the Commission to deal … justified in the early days of liberalisation when the telecommunications markets were still very concentrated, and when the …
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OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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This paper models settlement arrangements between international telecommunication carriers. The FCC in the U.S. claims these arrangements cost U.S. consumers billions of dollars annually, largely to subsidize foreign carriers in low-income countries. Our model shows why income differentials...
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This study evaluates the effect of incentive regulation on the productivity of U.S. local exchange carriers between 1988 and 1993. Introducing pure price-cap schemes has a strong and positive, but lagged, effect on technical efficiency. Where price-cap schemes operate in conjunction with an...
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