to lower entry cost for alternative operators and encourage competition on the FTTX market. The analysis is centred on …

whether or not fibre access networks should be subject to the same regulation as the copper local loop. This debate is often …, coverage, competition, innovation and prices/cost. Such an option corresponds to the choice of several European national …

This study provides preliminary insights into how fiber to the home (FTTH) networks affect competition in the broadband … Internet access market, and how, and if, competition on FTTH networks can be sustained. This study focuses on the Netherlands …, a fast growing FTTH market with regulation mandating unbundling. Even though it is too early to paint a full picture of …

34 member countries. The factors examined here includeHHI and frequency auction as completionpolicy, FTTH adoption, FMC …. Panel data analysis showed that smartphone, competition among telecommunicationcarriers observed by HHI and FTTH affect …

is applied to determine the investment and cost of deploying and operating a FTTH network in Germany on a national level … regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. In this paper a bottom-up cost modelling approach …. The monthly cost per subscriber at various levels of penetration is compared with the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) to …

The study develops and assesses models to implement a national FTTH network. …

next generation fixed access networks is still lagging. One of the reasons is the high initial investment cost associated … with the rollout of these networks. To decrease this cost, a cooperation model between utility operators during the …

Due to the high costs associated with the deployment of the passive infrastructure of FTTH networks, a few alternative … is to explore economic aspects of a co-investment scheme for present and future FTTH/PON architectures. The article … describes the cost reductions that can be achieved when a co-investment scheme is used, as well as the relationship between …