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This Policy Paper demonstrates that policies that hinder a new entrant's ability to sell video programming, such as forcing entrants to obtain a local cable franchise agreement, will strongly diminish that entrant's incentive to deploy fiber to low-income households. Using publicly-available...
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, telecommunications, natural gas and oil. This article provides an assessment of these developments, aiming to ascertain what goals policy …
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The EU regulatory framework for e-communications was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in 2002, and became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market; and (3) to promote citizens' rights. The European...
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on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as … opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1 …
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Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re … effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …
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This paper reviews comparative approaches to key issues in economic regulation in four countries of the Southern … innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are … evaluated with a focus on regulation of spectrum assignment, infrastructure sharing, call termination rates, and number …
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The transition from analogue to the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) in Europe is planned to be completed by the end of the year 2012. The DTV spectrum allocation is such that there are a number of TV channels which cannot be used for additional high power broadcast transmitters due to...
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