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In this paper we study how the migration from an old to a new technology is affected by the access price to the old … set a very high access price to accelerate consumers’ migration to the new technology. When the quality of the old … technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the new technology, the old technology is completely switched off …
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We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next …, that requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of … a NGN that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the NGN is …
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access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors …
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This paper seeks to explore the issues of Internet governance from a development perspective. The WSIS process and the report of the UN Working group on Internet Governance provide an initial framework within which to develop the issues. These issues not only concern the equitable distribution...
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This paper studies the endogenous determination of the nature of telephone calls, namely whether they are local or long distance. Calls between users in the same local calling area are local, and we allow the extension of this area to be treated as a strategic variable. We show that the...
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DSL has a greater share in Internet access and it is higher in countries in which cable modem has a greater share in … Internet access. Moreover, we find that competition between DSL providers has a significant and positive impact on broadband …
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Radio spectrum represents a scarce resource assigned to operators by national regulatory authorities through auctions, beauty contests or other mechanisms, aimed at introducing sufficient incentives for an optimal use of such a resource. A prerequisite for designing efficient assignment methods...
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study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …
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study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …
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access to them (OPf2). In our model, the level of investment is decided at stage 1 and the access price is decided at stage 2 … welfare and number of FTTH consumers) will be at its highest if both investment and access price decisions are taken by the … access price in order to maximise infrastructure deployment is strictly equivalent to the case in which no regulation applies …
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