This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in telecommunications. The entrant … the existing network to provide advanced services. We study the impact of access regulation on the type of entry and on … firms' investments. Without regulation, we find that the incumbent sets the access charge to prevent resale based entry and …

challenge is to balance the needs of end-users with a desire to encourage workable competition between the incumbent and new …

services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States …Since 1997, the U.S. government has attempted to use the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on telecommunications … took the position in 1997 that the WTO telecommunications agreement requires its signatory nations to follow the practices …

regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …

of competition policy with the creation of internal energy and communications markets. The paper considers the multiple …

high-end offer are the main competitive advantages. A number of tariff regulation measures allowing to compensate for the …