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The endemic underuse of radio spectrum constitutes a tragedy of the regulatory commons. Like other common interest tragedies, the outcome results from a legal or market structure that prevents economic actors from executing socially efficient bargains. In wireless markets, innovative...
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. Access regulation has been designed for traditional telephony on PSTN networks. In this paper we analyze the effect of access … regulation of PSTN networks on the adoption of a new technology in the form of VoIP. In particular, we show that with endogenous …
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Network operators of competing infrastructures in European electronic communications markets face asymmetric regulation … the quality of networks develop in the presence of asymmetric regulation and original quality differences? Based on a …
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regulation has benefited the U.S. greatly, while the failure to regulate has cost us dearly.The evidence considered in this paper … evidence can say about the value of regulation.With such limitations in mind, the white paper reviews the available evidence …
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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...
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telephone calls, sending text messages, or using data services in other EEA countries. The regulation was designed to create a … digital domestic market without adversely affecting consumers. The regulation raises the expectation of changes in mobile …
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difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer … access price regulation is an effective instrument to make the entrant and consumers better off. …
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I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or policies for enhancing economic efficiency. First, the pursuit of a dynamic regulatory approach based on implementing proper competition processes and information systems rather than...
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shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … question of regulated mobile number portability. Instead, an ex post introduction of sector specific regulation can be regarded … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …
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The existing literature on access price and investment has pointed out that networks underinvest under a regime of mandatory access provision with a fixed access price per end-user. In this paper we propose a new access pricing rule, the indexation approach, i.e., the access price, per end-user,...
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