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regulation. In our example, the termination rates have been part of a vertical restriction strategy. The observed network … competition, rest on a cost-based asymmetric price regulation. The further research allows a statistical assessment of the … asymmetric price regulation implemented by the Mexican regulatory authority during January 2013 to June 2017. This paper …
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Telecoms regulators have increasingly signaled concerns about the incentives and ability of vertically integrated incumbents to engage in discriminatory behavior against competitors in downstream markets. The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has recently accepted undertakings from British...
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Better regulation is intended to serve as a framework to increase economic competitiveness, ensuring that legislation … energy efficiency of consumer electronics). The United Kingdom was an early mover in better regulation, implementing a … regulator conduct impact assessments. In the Republic of Ireland the government adopted a white paper on better regulation and …
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and network effects. It argues that the regulation of mobile termination rates based on fully allocated costs, or “long …
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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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under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to …-specific regulation, however, transfers to consumers appear to have reduced, transaction costs have increased and delays are being …
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This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …
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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 …
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liberalization policy as the modus operandi, the authors are the first to recognize the role of asymmetric regulation as the … institutional foundation of telecommunications growth in Taiwan. Asymmetric regulation in Taiwan is manifested in a two … confirms that dualistic asymmetric regulation extends to mobile competitors a higher penetration rate and greater revenues …
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In this paper, we apply several alternative methods previously used in the literature to measure the degree of regulatory independence fortelecommunications regulators. These alternative methods are applied to a new homogeneous data set for 23 Latin American countries overa 15-year period. We...
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