Following the 1984 divestiture of AT&T, local telephone service was provided by several Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs). The RBOCs served as monopoly providers of local telephone service in their respective territories but were prohibited from offering long-distance service to their...

Telekomünikasyon sektörünün serbestleşmeye başlamasından sonra aynı ülke sınırları içinde birden fazla işletmeci faaliyette bulunmaya başlamış, bu farklı işletmecilerin abonelerinin birbirleriyle konuşabilmeleri için, işletmecilerin aynı ülke içerisinde birbiriyle...

Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is...

In allen EU-Ländern sind die ehemals monopolistischen Breitbandanbieter im Rahmen einer Open-Access-Politik verpflichtet, neuen Anbietern über sogenannten Bitstrom oder die Entbündelung der TeilnehmerInnenanschlussleitung (Local Loop Unbundling, LLU) Zugang zu ihren Netzen zu gewähren. Diese...

In allen EU-Ländern sind die ehemals monopolistischen Breitbandanbieter im Rahmen einer Open-Access-Politik verpflichtet, neuen Anbietern über sogenannten Bitstrom oder die Entbündelung der TeilnehmerInnenanschlussleitung (Local Loop Unbundling, LLU) Zugang zu ihren Netzen zu gewähren. Diese...

In 2010, the Federal Telecommunications Commission completed auctions 20 (30 MHz in the band of 1.9GHz) and 21 (90 MHz in the band of 1.7-2. 1 GHz) with the goal of positively impacting the coverage, quality, competition and investment in the sector. These processes were implemented...

Condiciones propicias de interconexion en redes de telecomunicaciones son fundamentales para que se alcance un nivel alto de competencia. Se considera que estudiar bajo que condiciones se generan mejores tarifas de interconexion puede ayudar a disenar politicas que permitan alcanzar una mejora...

This work presents an empirical analysis of the impact of user interaction on the demand for telecommunications. Specifically, we measure mobile telephony demand estimating a point-to-point model of the text messaging traffic exchanged cross-network, identifying the impact of incoming traffic as...

This paper brings up an amount of information, data and estimations, most of them originated in academic literature, with the objective of generating a debate on the economic effects of broadband, rather than its technical issues. Our goal is to start a debate that brings out the economic...