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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
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OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …
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final prices for regulatory policy with several changes in mobile termination rates based on an asymmetric price access … regulation. In our example, the termination rates have been part of a vertical restriction strategy. The observed network … competition, rest on a cost-based asymmetric price regulation. The further research allows a statistical assessment of the …
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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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This paper aims to investigate the main determinants of Telecommunications demand for European countries (EU). For this … the liberalization process. The goal is to clarify whether any changes in the demand of Telecommunications, as expressed … other major drivers so that policy implications can be drawn, taking also into account the magnitude of the relevant price …
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understanding the nature and origin of these applications, yet. Policy makers and regulators on the other hand have developed … impact between baseline telecommunications services' and the internet' impact. For a 10% increase in RIAs usage GDP for the … 164 countries in our panel rises by 0.33% based on the years 2000 to 2015. In sum, policy makers and regulators ought to …
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disruption in regulated industries such as telecommunications. In this paper, we aim at deepening our understanding of disruption … in the case of the Telecommunications industry, by analysing cases of mobile operators who entered the industry thanks to …
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There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...
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