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access as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act. Yet, almost no attention has …
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wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …
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This paper considers a central issue in telecommunications regulation. What rules, if any, should regulators put in … regulators might specify the price regulation principles which would apply to operators found to have significant market power …
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most relevant regulatory measures – that is, co-investment models as well as different types of access regulation - we …
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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
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Network operators of competing infrastructures in European electronic communications markets face asymmetric regulation …: incumbent telecommunications firms are required to open their networks for retail broadband competition, while cable companies … the quality of networks develop in the presence of asymmetric regulation and original quality differences? Based on a …
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Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it...
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We analyse network competition in a market with international calls. National regulatory agencies (NRAs) have incentives to set regulated termination rates above marginal cost to extract rent from international call termination. International network ownership and deregulation are alternatives...
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are able to identify the effect of quality regulation on the behavior of internet providers in a differentiated product … regulation is a more intense product differentiation that contributes to demand expansion and therefore to improve broadband …
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We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...
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