We analyze how network regulation affects investment into network infrastructure and complementary services. While regulation negatively affcets investment incentives in the regulated network market, the effects of network regulation on investment in complementary services can be either negative...

In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where providers compete to deliver a service to congestion-sensitive consumers. The SLG is a contractual obligation on the part of the service provider: regardless of how many customers...

This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality of service (as distinguished to investment in a new activity) in telecommunication industry. This kind of investment is very important in telecommunication industry because of the rapid technological progress that makes...

Three decade ago, federal policymakers - Republicans and Democrats - embarked on a general strategy of deregulation in the electricity, gas delivery, and telecommunications industries. The strategy called for restructuring to separate production from the transmission and distribution, followed...

Regulation of the Israeli cellular market is an ongoing project, in which several governmental institutions are involved. This study focuses on the dual regulation of the Ministry of Communication and the Antitrust Authority, who joined hands in mandating the reduction of access fees (a.k.a....

If one or two cellular carriers gain control of enough spectrum, they may be able to prevent current and potential rivals from getting the spectrum needed to compete effectively. Thus, regulators typically attempt to protect competition through some form of limit on how much spectrum any one...

For three decades the government of South Africa has sought to make telecommunications universally available and affordable. In its last days, the National Party government persuaded with the African National Congress (ANC) there should be licences for two competing international groups to build...

The internet giants – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...

European and the US mobile communication services markets have developed in rather different ways. There are striking differences in termination regulation and retail pricing models and one may wonder why this occurred and whether either of the markets outperforms the other in terms of...

One important concern for the upcoming and highly-complex voluntary incentive auctions for broadcast television spectrum is the degree to which the largest mobile wireless providers will be allowed to participate. Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice encouraged the Federal Communications...