This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a …

encourages infrastructure investments. The investment incentive of this regulation scheme has been multiply proven in the … assumed importance of regulation for investment incentives. Moreover, investments and, in particular, the resulting change in … provider, the investment also affects the incoming traffic from competitive networks. The European Commission asks national …

functions. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not …, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the … due to regulation. -- regulation ; mobile telecommunications ; investments ; interconnection …

study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …

operator is allowed to enter the market or not, standard access regulation leads to broader infrastructure coverage than co-investment …We introduce a model of asymmetric competition where two network operators with different investment costs may build an …

(CPs). We study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and …

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. …

wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …