documenting the rapid growth of Internet usage in the U.S. and California. There is a review of the current state of competition … irrelevance, and the rise of wireless and Internet services. California consumers dropped one in five of their remaining …

This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. -- Broadband access …

internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband … internet should be subsidized. Using an approach similar to Valletti et al. (2002), the paper highlights the importance of … population density for whether firms invest to provide internet access. The analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and …

This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband In-ternet access in regional markets with … intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect …: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. …

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition … under duopoly if consumer preferences for the two products are more diverse. Focusing on the price for cable modem Internet … access, with or without competition from a DSL provider, and using education dispersion and ethnic diversity as proxies for …

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 … regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is argued that facilities …-based competition is preferable to open-network regulations. The most prospective candidate as an independent network capable of …

are an essential input for broadband deployment. Internet service providers (ISPs) must lease pole attachment space. While …

Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods … limitations. The first approach involves searching for exogenous sources of variation in the access to fast Internet or specific … natural or quasi-experiments for identifying the causal impact of high-speed Internet or specific social media. This …

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 …