being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …

This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing …-based competition is preferable to open-network regulations. The most prospective candidate as an independent network capable of … generating facilities-based competition in Germany is the cable-broadcasting network. The current developments in the cable …

, interactive e-commerce, etc.). We introduce a systems model with free entry and competition in all three industry segments and …

The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of … competition is generally not leading to acceleration in broadband diffusion. Second, with respect to intra-platform competition …, this has been analyzed at two different levels: full unbundling and retail competition. In the first case the competitor is …

documenting the rapid growth of Internet usage in the U.S. and California. There is a review of the current state of competition …

tries to identify in particular to what extent intra- and inter-platform competition contribute to accelerating the speed of … diffusion. Panel data analysis results indicate that both types of competition significantly affect the the rate of diffusion …, although with different effects. Intra-platform competition seems to have a positive impact only initially on the rate of …

The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of … different regulatory provisions are assessed. Inter-firm competition in general and intra-platform competition on the incumbent … different access technologies and intra-platform competition on cable have such effects. Retail competition has about a twice as …