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In order to encourage investment in telecommunication networks, governments have been encouraged to adopt a regulatory state model, with an independent regulatory authority that is subject to a system of appeals and to parliamentary oversight, providing different forms of accountability. The...
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This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...
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the list of markets subject to ex ante regulation) would disappear, potentially requiring ‘transposition’ into domestic …
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Mobile telecommunications has been a considerable success with consumers, yet markets are oligopolies designed by governments and by industry, with many flaws, including limited ability to regulate prices, quality of service and coverage. Markets have been partially opened to competition, with...
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. In considering radio regulation, too often policy-makers have focused on radio spectrum management and interference among … fundamental political choices to constitutional aspects of radio regulation. Clearly across the world there is a diversity of … constitutional law should consider. This paper argues that there are three key constitutional questions that radio regulation should …
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divestiture remedy has been imposed under the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003. This divestiture refers to … competition; on the other hand in the Third Energy Package, unbundling constitutes a measure of the sector specific regulation …
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by the proposed state legislation would be preempted by federal regulation. Section 616 of the Communications Act, giving …
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pressure on both telephone-style regulation, which protects against monopoly pricing and vertical exclusion, as well as … broadcast-style regulation, which focuses on content and ownership structure. It will also force regulators to rethink social …
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In 1996, Congress increased the limits on how many radio stations one firm can own within a single “radio market.” To enforce these limits, the FCC used an idiosyncratic method of defining radio markets, based on the complex geometry of the signal contour patterns of radio stations’...
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