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Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...
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The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …
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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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This paper means to add to empirical research on the impact of local loop unbundling (LLU) on broadband networks. In particular, it focuses on broadband investment made by entrants. Starting from late Nineties telecommunications incumbents of several European Union countries have been required...
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-based competition, by fine-tuning access regulation, working as intended? What can one learn from the Dutch experience? As scale …
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. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries …) were utilized to test the effects of sectoral regulation. In line with other studies of the effects of regulation on … innovation, the study finds that more stringent regulation had a statistically significant negative effect on the number of …
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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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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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This paper assesses the integration strategy of the European Union in regulated network markets. The paper argues that in these markets integration should not be an end in itself. In regulated markets the conventional gains from trade or freedom of establishment may be outweighed by significant...
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