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The liberalization and regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany is called, despite some adversity as a great … of the regulation was for almost one and a half decades the non-discriminatory access to the copper-based infrastructure … of the incumbent. Due to technical progress, the focus of regulation will continue to move to other areas, such as, for …
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question arises how telecommunications markets of the future will develop and what role regulation ought to have in this …
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are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …
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OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment incentives are positively related to the potential for...
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We study the implementation of reasonably efficient operator margin squeeze tests by National Regulatory Authorities in European telecommunications markets. We provide a theoretical framework in which we show how regulatory authorities deal with the asymmetries between the entrants and the...
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This paper addresses the question of how the competitive situation in the downstream market, the services, and the innovative activity in the upstream market, the network infrastructure, interact. The focus is on the vertical structure of the telecommunication market, which is analysed in the...
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This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …
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Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants access their networks through bitstream or local loop unbundling (LLU). This type of regulatory provision aims to increase competition among all broadband providers, and is...
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This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …
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