transfer market shares or money. This paper develops a model of repeated Bertrand competition in a homogeneous market that … unregulated firm. The model assumes subscriber-based competition, the presence of switching costs, and asymmetry in the initial … of competition, and where the incumbent reciprocates by transferring money or market shares to the entrant …

The era of telecommunications 4.0 is a challenge to regulators and operators insofar as external environment … telecommunications 4.0? (2) Are there little vertical complementarities between services along the supply chain? (3) Is network …

We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …-based competition. Moreover, we find evidence of a regulatory commitment problem: higher incumbents’ investments encourage provision of …

that estimate the costs of a hypothetical carrier employing the most efficient telecommunications technology currently … telecommunications network. When there is uncertainty about how these prices will change over the period for which costs and prices are … for the increased price of copper. A global trend may be emerging among telecommunications regulators to ignore the input …

This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in telecommunications. The entrant …

This paper considers the effects of regulating termination for interconnected telecommunications networks. We develop …a), which allows for subscriber competition. We show that if a dominant network (i.e., one with the greatest market …

down to zero. This move is contrary to the aim of opening telecom markets to competition while reducing regulatory …