It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. Taking note of the broadband strategies formulated by European governments the deployment cost is...

This study evaluates the effect of incentive regulation on the productivity of U.S. local exchange carriers between 1988 and 1993. Introducing pure price-cap schemes has a strong and positive, but lagged, effect on technical efficiency. Where price-cap schemes operate in conjunction with an...

The deregulation of the telephone industry has been a major task of public policy for the past two decades. There have been some outstanding achievements but also some serious frustrations ? especially in the deregulation of local telephone service. This paper notes the parallels (as well as the...