content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …

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 …

We analyze optimal pricing policies in local telecommunications subject to bypass for the access of long …

This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in telecommunications. The entrant … the existing network to provide advanced services. We study the impact of access regulation on the type of entry and on … firms' investments. Without regulation, we find that the incumbent sets the access charge to prevent resale based entry and …

I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … integrity of the telecommunications networks in Canada. Third, the design of non predatory pricing rules (price floors) through … full cost sharing capable of fostering the emergence of a more competitive telecommunications industry, even if such non …

Network operators of competing infrastructures in European electronic communications markets face asymmetric regulation …: incumbent telecommunications firms are required to open their networks for retail broadband competition, while cable companies … the quality of networks develop in the presence of asymmetric regulation and original quality differences? Based on a …

fiber and "hybrid-fiber" facilities from the unbundling requirements of the 1996 Telecommunications Act as part of its ….g., reconditioning of nuclear or coal-fired power plants) that any test that bases regulation upon a "new" versus "old" distinction … either grandfather themselves into more favorable regulation or, alternatively, to escape onerous legacy regulation to …

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which … give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising …

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which … give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising …