In 2005, Ofcom accepted undertakings from BT, the vertically integrated provider of fixed telecoms services in the UK. These constitute the latest attempt to address discriminatory concerns in fixed telecoms. This paper examines the incentives of vertically integrated operators with market power...

Regulators and government bodies in posts, as in other sectors, are involved in related decisions over whether to require access for competitors to the facilities, especially the delivery services, of the historic monopolist, and if so, whether to separate that firm vertically. The paper sets...

This paper discusses and evaluates remedies for operators found to have significant market power in broadband services (taken here to be broadband wholesale access, unbundled local loops and leased lines) under the new European regulatory framework for electronic communications services. It is...

This paper evaluates the impact of the tightening in price cap by OFWAT and of other operational factors on the efficiency of water and sewerage companies in England and Wales using a mixture of data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier analysis. Previous empirical results suggest that...

The aim of this lecture is to; set out the importance of information and communications technologies for europe’s economic future; describe the role ICT policies play in the Lisbon agenda; evaluate the current regulatory regime for electronic communications services in Europe. To anticipate the...

Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data-processing to be performed anywhere in the world. They thus become tradable and subject to the laws of comparative advantage. A good example is data-processing within large...