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landlord or entity. As is the case in Indonesia, many MDUs around the world enter into exclusive arrangements with a single …
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Unlike in developed countries, the liberalization process in Indonesia began at a time when telecommunication … infrastructure was minimal and teledensity was below 2%. The main aim of liberalization and sector reform is consequently to increase … teledensity. However, the results of liberalization have not yet been envisaged. A decade after the introduction of liberalization …
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privatisation) in both competitive and non-competitive industries in the past two decades. Turning to network industries, it then …-neutral charges for accessing the fixed networks of incumbents; ii) the pros and cons of structural measures such as privatisation … sectoriels des réformes (privatisation y compris) dans des industries concurrentielles et non compétitives au cours des deux …
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The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on data recently collected and summarised by the...
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Successful network utility privatisation requires incentive-based regulation that allows investment to be adequately … consumer prices for telecoms, gas and electricity fell in the UK, overcoming most opposition to privatisation …
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This study examines the impacts of reforms - privatization, new entry and independent regulatory authority - on mobile network penetration and expansion using a new and hitherto unused panel dataset for 30 national mobile markets (i.e. 29 OECD countries and China) over the time period 1991-2006...
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The importance of efficient workings of network industries and the markets in which they operate has long been recognized in the literature. In a parallel fashion, policy makers around the world initiated various restructuring efforts focusing on these sectors. However, the issues of...
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Policy variation across countries on the use of mandatory vertical separation and statutory monopoly allows me to assess their impact on basic telephone services (local, long distance, and international service). Panel data analysis from 67 countries during the seven-year period following the...
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Privatisation of utilities is about ownership rather than control. Liberalisation can induce greather improvements in … performance than privatisation alone. Regulation id inevitably inefficient, and adequately competitive network services may … improve efficiency. History indicates that regulated vertical integration is durable so that liberalisation may be hard to …
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