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telecommunications law. It is argued that the link between telecommunications and media regulation is at the heart of the net neutrality …
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Net neutrality, the principle of non-discrimination by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) between different kinds of Internet traffic and non-restriction of legal content, sites and platforms, has become increasingly prominent in telecommunications policy agendas in various countries. The debate...
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We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...
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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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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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substantial risks that Carterfone-type regulation would commoditize wireless network services in a way that could substantially …
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building new networks. Traditional cost-based regulation, which focuses on issues of static efficiency and service … ex ante regulation contingent to the tendency towards effective competitive structures. Unlike the standard Significant … a result, our proposal of contingent regulation in emerging markets promotes infrastructure-based competition in …
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freedom in their design and operation. Markets subject to regulation would be expected to suffer some uncertainty, but efforts …
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countries within the West African sub-region specifically and Africa in general. This article critically analyses regulation of … framework that is substantially influenced by EU ex ante sector specific regulation. Furthermore, NCC and at least one of the … leading operators appear to adopt the view that regulation of dominance should be predicated on a finding of abuse of dominant …
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Developments in the Nigerian Telecommunications sector since the turn of the new millennium have attracted some scholarly attention across different disciplines. This article seeks to make a modest contribution to the literature by providing a general overview of regulatory developments during...
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