access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors …

estimate the level of e-communications investment in the EU and to examine its main drivers as part of a contributio to the … provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …-communciations sector by country and by sub-sector. It also presents the collected data, showing a decline in overall investment between …

and ongoing experiences with private provision of water services in Brazil and assesses their impact on access and … poor. It uses different estimation methods and datasets to determine whether or not there is any difference in access to … entail the conclusion that PSP in Brazil has delivered higher access to water services, benefiting mostly the poor. They are …

matters how investment costs are shared and how internal and external access prices are determined. In the case of long …, investment and welfare crucially depend on the fine details of implementation. For instance, in the case of joint-ventures, it …-term access agreements, it is essential to consider how access tariffs are structured, whether they can adapt to market …

This paper surveys the theory of access pricing and interconnection in telecommunicatons. One-way access pricing …, competition bottlenects and two-way access pricing are discussed. …