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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - 2014
Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based (“next generation access”, NGA) telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258770
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Wi-Fi Everywhere : Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust and Telecommunications Policy
Travis, Hannibal - 2012
universal access to telecommunications services is at the core of American telecommunications law and policy, the U.S. has … characteristics. Part III contends that a trio of recent Supreme Court cases construing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 achieved a … Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n v. Brand X Internet Services, 125 S. Ct. 2688 (2005) - reveals that they have empowered the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058179
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059514
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Pricing Regulations and Network Technology Investments : A Retrospective Evaluation
Majumdar, Sumit K. - 2016
using two technology deployment metrics, among the population of local exchange carriers in the USA between 1988 and 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129087
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Regulation and investment in network industries : evidence from european telecoms
Grajek, Michał; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2009
We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922795
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676
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The national regulatory structure against the background of the European regulatory system
Veith, Tobias - 2010
States and their representatives, national governments, play a key role in national telecommunication markets. As lawmakers, they determine the playing field of the agents in the markets and the decision powers of national regulators. Simultaneously, they are involved in appointing presidential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701351
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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015
Our survey reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on all alternative policies to promote the deployment of new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive externalities, dynamic efficiency becomes a particularly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462525
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Unbundling the Incumbent : Evidence from UK Broadband
Nardotto, Mattia - 2015
We consider the impact of a regulatory process forcing an incumbent telecom operator to make its local broadband network available to other companies (local loop unbundling, or LLU). Entrants are then able to upgrade their individual lines and offer Internet services directly to customers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032290
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International Broadband Deployment : The Impact of Unbundling
Garcia-Murillo, Martha - 2013
This paper shows that unbundling an incumbent's infrastructure only results in a substantial improvement in broadband deployment for middle-income countries, but not for their high income counterparts. Our statistical analysis of approximately 100 countries showed that GDP per capita,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753953