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