third-generation (3G) mobile licence auctions, have called into question the European reliance on a strategy of network …

services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States … regulatory policy on the pricing of mandatory competitor access to the unbundled elements of the local network belonging to the … a topic as complex as the efficient pricing of mandatory access to unbundled network elements. The USTR's power to …

NGN core network raises significantly different issues from those of the NGN access network. The migration to NGN raises … in regard to the de-coupling of the service from the underlying network. To these concerns are added profound questions …, especially in the last mile? Will NGN enable new forms of bottlenecks to emerge, especially in the upper layers of the network …

indexation approach, i.e., the access price, per end-user, that network i pays to network j is function of the investment levels …

network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare … investment to build up its network. Assuming a skewed distribution of consumers, our model leads to an asymmetric market … structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices …

its components) and the service markets (telephony, mobile internet, SMS). In contrast to most other network-based markets …European mobile communication markets are two-stage markets which are composed of the infrastructure (the network and … there are multiple fully integrated providers which keep their own network and offer services on their network. Following …

network industries. In this paper, we analyse interconnection in a deregulated network where the participants compete in the … incumbent. In the later case, network externalities allow the incumbent to use the terms of interconnection to maintain its …