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Thailand is now engaged in the important process of reforming the countrys telecommunications structure. New … telecommunications acts have been passed and regulators have been designated to regulate this telecommunications transformation. However … these countries was selected after consideration of the telecommunications mechanisms they have implemented, as well as for …
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, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line telecommunications industry, this book investigates whether bundling is …
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both academia and industry to present their insights on the digital convergence phenomenon in the telecommunications …
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We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellularfirms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, whenincumbents faced increased competition from personal communicationsservices (PCS) firms. Entry...
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This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in … never be realized in local telecommunications inthe fashion that the 1996 prescribed. The decision of AT&T to stopmarketing …
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There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate crosssubsidies between local business and local residential telephone marketsis necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If theelasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for businessand residential...
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We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges asin the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determinethe access price that network i pays to network j as a linear functionof the...
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)regulate telecommunications provision. …
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We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linearprices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the caseof a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes theresults of Gans and...
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This dissertation empirically tests the impacts of telecommunications infrastructure as well asits spillover effects on …, telecommunicationsinfrastructure has significant negative impacts, implying the possibility of “investmentcongestion” in the telecommunications sector …
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