are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …

-based services. We find that the optimal regulatory policy in terms of investment incentives is to set the copper access charge at … incumbent's profit after the investment. It should be noted that the proposed regulatory policy confirms the methodology of the …

Real life applications of Yardstick Regulation frequently refer to historical cost data. While Yardstick Regulation … Yardstick Regulation was meant to overcome can occur and firms can realize positive rents because of the use of historical cost …

Commission's current decision to lift the ex ante regulation on the fixed-line telephony market. …

This study attempted to analyze the effect of regulation and political stability in allocation of mobile … investment in telecommunications, a framework was developed to understand the factors that determine investments in telecom … cost. The results show that investments in the telecommunications industry are positively dependent on liberalization that …

interaction of supply, demand, policy, and contextual factors. We explore the drivers of broadband access and quality and … potential interdependencies between them. Our focus is on the role of public policy decisions as a determinant of quality and … provide evidence that the best policy approach is dependent on the specific context of a country so that no single best …

investment cost is low. We also show that, when voluntary access provision occurs in equilibrium, access regulation is socially … desirable only if the degree of spillover is small and the investment cost is high. On the contrary, access regulation is …