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The purpose of this paper is to review the effectiveness of the various initiatives taken to regulate international mobile roaming over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is an analysis of the policies and the measures and their effects on prices and industry dynamics....
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regulated over the top (OTT) services. The regulation of aggregators and platforms is achieving greater attention. Leading …, alongside privacy, and enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), supported by a network of national supervisory …
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International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...
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Traditionally, there have been two separate telecommunications networks, one based on switches, the other based on routers. The switched network basically carried voice. The packet switched network basically carried data. Now voice is about to go packet switched too. Ultimately, both networks...
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-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …
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intent. Third, economic analysis demonstrates that subjecting VoIP to the full panoply of regulation under Title II of the … some selective regulation is necessary, it has ample authority to impose targeted regulation without subjecting VoIP to all …
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Regulatory outcomes can vary substantially from one US state to the next. For example, at the end of 2002 regulated prices for access to the local loops of incumbent telephone networks varied from $2.79 per month in downtown Chicago, IL to $7.70 in Manhattan, NY to $12.14 in Houston, TX....
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building new networks. Traditional cost-based regulation, which focuses on issues of static efficiency and service … ex ante regulation contingent to the tendency towards effective competitive structures. Unlike the standard Significant … a result, our proposal of contingent regulation in emerging markets promotes infrastructure-based competition in …
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Technological and marketplace convergence in Information, Communications and Entertainment ("ICE") has contributed to the merger of conduit and content. Yet laws, regulations and trade policies assume a separation between the delivery of content and the creation of the content. For example, the...
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a way out. In the area of content regulation, transnational conflict is no less pronounced. The Europeans are … opportunity cost seems too high. The more important difference between data protection and content regulation thus turns out to be … typically is a one-to-one conflict, while in content regulation the typical conflict is of a one-to-many nature. In public goods …
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