This report examines mass-market broadband access and take-up, analyzing the current and prospective level of competition and drawing implications for public policy. The report was commissioned by The Brussels Round Table, a forum for leading European telecommunication operators and equipment...

There is a large empirical literature that investigates the effects of unbundling requirements on broadband operators' incentives to invest in infrastructure. To date, that literature has generally relied on industry-wide data as an indicator of how the representative operator reacts to the...

A large "cluster" of contiguous cable systems might deter entry or induce exit by overbuilders. To date, there is little empirical evidence relating an overbuilder's entry decision to the size of the incumbent multi-system operator's (MSO's) footprint. By examining the variation in overbuild...