general competition and sector specific frameworks and rules regarding the regulation of the Internal Energy Market …-by-case solutions, which lack the breadth of objectives expressed by sector regulation. On the other hand, sector regulation seems to … hierarchical priority over sector-specific rules and its direct application cannot be excluded when sector regulation is …

In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing …

question arises how telecommunications markets of the future will develop and what role regulation ought to have in this … telecommunications technologies and products are characterized by short life cycles, as the advancement of these technologies continues …

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 …

telecommunications market development under firstly Australian administration, and latterly under a pro-competitive set of regulatory … country. Whilst the framework is based on guidelines from the World Bank and the International Telecommunications Union …

Using an efficiency-based framework, this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector … under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to …-specific regulation, however, transfers to consumers appear to have reduced, transaction costs have increased and delays are being …

This paper analyses the role of the European Commission in taking cases of abuse of dominance in the telecommunications … competition law as a complement, and not a substitute, to regulation. They have set a relatively low threshold for proving margin … squeeze, the most common form of abuse in telecommunications; and they have allowed wide discretion to the Commission to deal …

.S.-originated International Message Telecommunications Service (IMTS) traffic. (See Lawrence J. Spiwak, From International Competitive Carrier to … the WTO: A Survey of the FCC's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998, 51 Fed. Comm. L.J. 111 (1998 … parties representing over 100 foreign governments, regulators, and telecommunications companies - upheld the FCC's Benchmarks …

the citizens of its member states. The Roaming Regulation that has reduced the mobile communications costs while … case of telecommunications, several initiatives of the European Commission and of national regulatory authorities to falls …