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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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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774721
regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011640580
Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …
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basic and ubiquitous features of regulation as actually implemented throughout the world has received little theoretical … because exemption induces additional harmful activity to be channeled their way. This article analyzes optimal regulation with … regulation, which illustrates the contrast with the mechanism design approach that analyzes the optimal use of instruments of a …
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roaming services. The investigation and analysis find that there are currently low levels of alignment in regulation between … operator costs is asymmetric, making regulation challenging, as this affects the extent to which the relationship between costs …-the-top services. Attention therefore needs to be paid to the harmonization of regulation regarding Internet-related services. Here …
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We analyse network competition in a market with international calls. National regulatory agencies (NRAs) have incentives to set regulated termination rates above marginal cost to extract rent from international call termination. International network ownership and deregulation are alternatives...
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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 …
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We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...
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