This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … to what extent such regulatory policy can stimulate competition. Our main finding is that, in the short run, asymmetric …

implemented by using the 'internet protocol' when consumers have broadband access, LLU may, in the end, spur competition in … present, LLU seems most promising as a means for entrants to offer broadband internet access. As voice telephony can be … markets for voice telephony as well. Thus LLU is an important way to stimulate competition in the broadly defined market for …

This paper finds that a regulation that promotes competition in one market may decrease competition in other related … diffusion may reduce the price of service but also decrease competition in the infrastructure market. -- Unbundling ; FTTH …

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 …-up Internet users, and hosts all have positive effects on the number of subscribers. One implication of these results is that if a …

harm the prospects for entry and competition in the industry …

particular low-income households - if that entrant can readily offer video with voice and broadband Internet access services than … competition more difficult will lead to significantly lower deployment of advanced broadband networks in low-income areas than …