Bundling of broadband access and other services prevails in telecommunications markets. In converging markets, bundling broadband with video content is feared to foreclose broadband market competition. However, the motivations for bundling are many and complex, as are the forms it can take in...

Local loop unbundling has been widely promulgated by policy-makers as a significant factor stimulating broadband uptake and therefore an essential component of a developing 'information economy'. Whilst empirical evidence on this issue is sparse, one recent study commissioned and published by...

This paper sets out to identify diffusion patterns evident in the market for broadband Internet connections. We hypothesise that in the absence of supply-side constraints, the diffusion patterns are determined by the interaction of learning effects, vintage capital and information barriers,...

While many online applications have experienced a surge in traffic under the COVID-19 pandemic, the infrastructure requirements to support streaming video entertainment cost significantly more than applications for work, school, and healthcare. These latter applications are socially important,...

Both the Australian and New Zealand governments have committed to spend substantial sums in order to bring forward the nationwide deployment of ultra-fast fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband networks. With deployment proceeding apace, two significant questions have arisen regarding the economic,...