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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 …
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tries to identify in particular to what extent intra- and inter-platform competition contribute to accelerating the speed of … diffusion. Panel data analysis results indicate that both types of competition significantly affect the the rate of diffusion …, although with different effects. Intra-platform competition seems to have a positive impact only initially on the rate of …
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-platform competition while competition on the platform has an ambiguous if not negative impact. The diffusion speed diminishes with the …-platform competition than intra-platform competition …
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The introduction of packet-switched telephony in the form of VoIP raises concerns about current regulatory practice. Access regulation has been designed for traditional telephony on PSTN networks. In this paper we analyze the effect of access regulation of PSTN networks on the adoption of a new...
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This paper re-examines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the...
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the most important results of our analysis is to show how the competition patterns and regulatory policies impact in the … a significant impact of platform competition. .-- Telecommunications ; Broadband prices ; European Union ; Competition …
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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 …
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strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …
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-based competition, by fine-tuning access regulation, working as intended? What can one learn from the Dutch experience? As scale … service, and security. The outcome of such an assessment could be incongruent with the blueprint of competition held on to by …
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countries showed that GDP per capita, population, competition and unbundling are all factors that can lead a carrier to provide … broadband services. The OLS analysis indicates that GDP per capita, population size, price, competition, the percentage of dial … policy is to be implemented to promote broadband, it should either foster competition through unbundling and/or reduced …
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