The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "1996 Act"), by stressing the reduction or elimination of entry barriers that prevent the fragmentation of market structure and an increase in the number of competitors, established competition and deregulation as the foundation for public policy towards...

This paper analyzes the impact on mobile telephony diffusion patterns of the two predominant payment regimes, calling party pays (CPP) and receiving party pays (RPP), for mobile termination services. By applying instrumental variable techniques to panel data we account for a possible...

In this paper we analyze the interplay between access to the last-mile network and net neutrality in the market for Internet access. We consider two competing Internet service providers (ISPs), which act as platforms between Internet users and content providers (CPs). One of the ISPs is...

5G wireless services will constitute an integral part of the future gigabit communication network infrastructure. Policy makers worldwide are striving to design legal and regulatory frameworks that best support 5G services. There is wide agreement that a competitive sector organization is...

A recent report by the Open Technology Institute provides data from a recent survey of broadband prices in cities with and without government-owned networks. In this paper, the data is used to compare prices between market types using econometric analysis. I find that average prices are about...

We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act collectively in setting a uniform settlement rate for inbound...

This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...

This paper, to appear as a Chapter in a book, addresses the idea of applying green tariffs as incentives towards energy savings in communication networks, and mobile networks in particular. A first Section addresses regulatory, economic and microeconomic measures in general relevant in this...

To best promote benefits to persons as consumers and creators of communication, information, and network services, regulators should seek to transform communications industry structure in a way that supports the most beneficial forms of competition. Recent experience with long-distance calling,...