answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying … on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as …

coverage exists. Moreover, it is found that a second entrant in this market strongly increases competition, while further entry … competition in this market. It is shown that this is not the case in some other retail markets, where entry by a third firm may … significantly affect competition. Finally, using the estimation results, it is show that the public policy, which consisted of …

liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents … at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition consequently … Switzerland) continued to have partially binding retail price regulation. More than a decade after liberalisation and the …

indicates that infrastructure-based competition has a positive effect on innovation. Moreover, infrastructure-based competition … national regulatory authorities (NRAs) was whether to foster service-based competition in the first phase of liberalisation or … to focus on infrastructurebased competition. The different NRAs chose to head down different roads. This paper analyses …

have contributed to the transformation of the telecommunications industry, competition has played a key role in driving …

regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers. The article suggests that the time is right to shift from a regime of a priori … rules governing incumbent-form conduct to a regime of ex post competition enforcement. …

We discuss policy towards mobile call termination, illustrated by the 2002 Competition Commission enquiry into the UK … competition. Competition is often relaxed by choosing a low mobile-to-mobile termination charge. If feasible, then, unregulated …