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5G wireless services will constitute an integral part of the future gigabit communication network infrastructure. Policy makers worldwide are striving to design legal and regulatory frameworks that best support 5G services. There is wide agreement that a competitive sector organization is...
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A recent report by the Open Technology Institute provides data from a recent survey of broadband prices in cities with and without government-owned networks. In this paper, the data is used to compare prices between market types using econometric analysis. I find that average prices are about...
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The Lifeline Program, a low-income subsidy program for communications services, has shrunk significantly since 2012 in both line counts and subsidies dollars. Data on Lifeline subscriptions reveal what is already known: carriers were required to shed a significant number of Lifeline subscribers...
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This paper analyses the consequences on European markets of the introduction of “Roam Like At Home” (RLAH) obligation, which prohibit any price surcharge for roaming usage within EU. It demonstrates that RLAH cannot be achieved while ensuring both the profitability of retail roaming prices...
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It is important for the Commission to establish new Open Internet rules. However, the proposed rules that set a minimum level of access and allow unlimited negotiation beyond that minimum will not protect the Open Internet. The NPRM's proposal to maintain the “specialized services” loophole...
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We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act collectively in setting a uniform settlement rate for inbound...
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sector since its liberalisation in 1998. The argument is that the Commission has played a very active antitrust role, in … particular at the beginning of the liberalisation, and that its activism was blessed by the EU Courts. Indeed, the Courts see … justified in the early days of liberalisation when the telecommunications markets were still very concentrated, and when the …
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Using data on the prices paid by multichannel video programing distributors (“MVPDs”) for basic cable networks, I conduct a retrospective analysis of the price effects of the Comcast-NBCU merger. Estimates from both the difference-in-differences and lagged-dependent variable models indicate...
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