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intensive. -- Next Generation Access Networks ; investment ; access regulation ; cooperation …
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This paper considers how to regulate the price that an access provider charges for shifting customers between different service providers. In determining regulated prices, cost is typically the focus of discussion. Debate revolves around how to determine what are relevant costs (used and useful?...
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switching costs, and churn among service providers can help to inform price regulation. Attention to such factors highlights for …
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difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer … access price regulation is an effective instrument to make the entrant and consumers better off. …
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difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer … access price regulation is an effective instrument to make the entrant and consumers better off …
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Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight loss might be outweighed by the inefficient duplication of an existing infrastructure. Using data from broadband internet access for Western Europe 2000-2004, this paper...
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Our companion article developed a clear conceptual framework of negotiated or regulated interconnection agreements between rival operators and studied competition between interconnected networks, under the assumption of non-discriminatory pricing. This article relaxes this assumption and allows...
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Access services. Given the present debate over expanding price regulation in this sector, the importance of market definition … on the expected economic effects of regulation is worth evaluating. In this paper, we demonstrate that if geographic … markets are “location specific” and supplied by a monopolist as the proponents of regulation claim, then price regulation …
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In 1999, the FCC largely deregulated middle-mile or "special access" enterprise communications services, resulting in explosive growth of new competitors using new technologies, including cable, fiber-optics, and high-speed Ethernet loops. But in recent years the agency has expressed increased...
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