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Brasil Telecom : The Briefing of a Case on Telecom Regulation in Emerging Markets

Vargens, Jose Rogerio - 2010

In 2005, the telecom regulator in Brazil asked incumbents to undertake the account separation and cost modeling. The goal was allowing the regulator to set prices based on an assessment of incumbents finance and physical data, especially the definition of cost-based prices at the wholesale...

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Federalism in Telecommunications Regulation : Effectiveness and Accuracy of State Commission Implementation of Telric in Local Telecoms Markets

Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004

This Policy Bulletin makes use of regression analysis to demonstrate that differences in UNE-P prices both across States and within States are due to genuine cost differences and differences in TELRIC, and are not because of regulatory failure by the States. These findings confirm an obvious...

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Competitive Debacle in Local Telephony : Is the 1996 Telecommunications Act to Blame?

Dibadj, Reza - 2009

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is to blame for the lack of …

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Challenges in the Telecom Sector : A Case Study of 3G Rollout in China

Li, Grace - 2016

The year 2008 was a big one for the telecommunications industry of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). In May 2008 …, the PRC State Council conducted a significant reform in the telecom sector, which created a mega-telecommunications … and with the government decision to stimulate domestic consumption. This paper studies the PRC telecommunications sector …

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Antitrust vs. Sector Specific Regulation in Telecom : A Close Look at Interconnection

Geradin, Damien; Neto, Isabel; Kerf, Michel - 2013

full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … Zealand which fully liberalized its telecommunications markets in the late 1980's and relied primarily on antitrust …

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Internet Telephones : Hanging Up on Regulation?

Hahn, Robert W.; Crandall, Robert W.; Litan, Robert E.; … - 2014

The Federal Communications Commission has requested comments on the regulation of voice telephone services delivered over the Internet, dubbed "VoIP" or Voice over Internet Protocol. This paper examines whether there is a need to regulate VoIP. We conclude that there is no economic rationale for...

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Excessive(?) Entry of National Telecom Networks, 1990-2001

Hogendorn, Christiaan - 2004

We document entry and capacity expansion in US long-distance fiber-optic networks before and during the "telecom boom." We disentangle the many swaps and leases between networks in order to measure owned route miles versus route miles shared with other carriers. Entry appears much more moderate...

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Consumer and Telecommunication Service : Role of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in Policy Making and Regulations

Asawat, Vikas - 2014

the telecommunications business in India. Its mission is to ensure that the interests of consumers are protected and at … the same time to nurture conditions for growth of telecommunications, broadcasting and cable services in a manner and at a …

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Regulation and Competition - EU Telecoms Reform : Towards a Unique and Competitive Market

Lescop, Denis - 2014

, all Member States except Netherlands (abstention) voted in favour. Member States should transpose the new package into …

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Access Regulation and the Transition from Copper to Fiber Networks in Telecoms

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Dogan, Pinar - 2014

In this paper we study the impact of different forms of access obligations on firms’ incentives to migrate from the legacy copper network to next generation broadband infrastructures. We analyze geographically differential access prices of copper (that depend on whether or not an alternative...

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