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to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …
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competition at the time and in the future, by discouraging future market entry. Digicel by agreeing not to compete excluded itself …
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Using an efficiency-based framework, this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector … under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to … incurred in the deployment of new applications and technologies relative to the competition law regime as participants engage …
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Telecommunications Act and of much of the competition it helped facilitate … by attacking the premises of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and providing far greater leeway to incumbents, as well as … addition, this idea is largely contradicted by the short period during which the sector achieved some level of competition …
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This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. We first examine the competitive effects and the costs of introducing MNP. Next, we discuss how to charge for MNP. We argue that a price cap regime starting from...
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Hong Kong has only had cross-sector competition law since 2015, but the city’s telecommunications markets have been … the protection of competition in the telecommunications sector in Hong Kong. The results of the liberalization process are … liberalized in the 1990s. Yet until the late 2000s, the government vehemently opposed the adoption of competition law in virtually …
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In 1996 Congress passed the landmark Telecommunications Act (hereafter "the Act"). The Act, under Section 271, allowed …
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The introduction of sector-specific regulation in the EU has fostered competition and innovation in the … telecommunications industry. However, the liberalisation process still has a long way to go. The debate on the new scenario facing … the market must be avoided in order to boost innovation and achieve sustainable competition …
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Telecommunications in South Africa is one example of the regulatory state, dating from the early 1990s and comprising … the usual elements of commercial operators, ministers issuing periodic policies, a regulator, a competition authority …, have been framed without competition or economic analyses, directing commercial or state-owned operators to perform …
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