) are mechanisms used by telecommunications regulatory authorities to achieve this objective. This paper discusses and …

significantly increases the level of product market competition in services and goods markets. Our result is consistent with the … measures of competition and a range of specification checks. -- Telecommunication technologies ; Entry costs ; Product market … competition …

analysis. These findings show that European Commission interventions are competition enhancing and support the expected … performance of the affected companies in the telecommunications sector. However, while country-addressing interventions and …

substantially deregulated the telecommunications industry with the intent of increased competition and increasing benefits to …Through the 1980s and the early 1990s, the U. S. telecommunications industry experienced rapid technological change …, which failed to deliver expected cost reductions to users. In 1996, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act 1996, which …