the existing network to provide advanced services. We study the impact of access regulation on the type of entry and on … firms' investments. Without regulation, we find that the incumbent sets the access charge to prevent resale based entry and … this overstimulates rival's investment that may turn out to be socially inefficient. Access regulation may discourage …

, regulation often leads to counterproductive constraints on firms. Moreover, history shows that such counterproductive regulations …

? In particular, to what extent should (or can) regulators impose existing telecommunications regulation, including the … regulation is the distinction between quot;telecommunications service,quot; whose providers are subject to FCC common …-carrier regulation and must pay a percentage of revenues to a federal quot;universal servicequot; fund, and quot;information services …

, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which … the efficient and the monopoly benchmarks. There remains a rationale for regulation, albeit reduced relative to the …

intent. Third, economic analysis demonstrates that subjecting VoIP to the full panoply of regulation under Title II of the … some selective regulation is necessary, it has ample authority to impose targeted regulation without subjecting VoIP to all …

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 …