access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a …This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The …

empirically the relationship between the different types of special access deregulation and investment in special access …Little empirical work carefully evaluates the special access market, and even less research has focused explicitly on … facilities, specifically the number of special access lines provided by the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs …

-based firms. We focus on asymmetric regulation regarding servicebased firms' access to the infrastructure held by a facility … facility-based firm to make upgrades if access prices are not regulated. The existence of rival facility-based firms … effect is significant. Furthermore, if access prices are not regulated, the existence of rival facility-based firms weakens …

superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) but yields lower incentives for investment in network …

superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) and yields higher incentives for investment in network …

In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the … incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by … heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory ….s investment incentive and social welfare. Furthermore, the investment level is higher if the regulated ISP is allowed to charge … the CPs. Finally, a socially optimal investment can be opposite to the ISP's choice when the contents are enough …

particular, it focuses on broadband investment made by entrants. Starting from late Nineties telecommunications incumbents of … negative or null impact of unbundling obligations on incumbents’ investment, research on the relationship between LLU and new … entrants’ investment, albeit growing, has not yet reached a coherent body of results. We have tested two propositions. First …

investment behaviour in the European Union. Cost based access pricing regimes, although successful in attracting new entrants …, have negatively affected the investment in fixed line infrastructure. New entrants show a low propensity to invest in … telecommunications sector. There access regulation is much less intrusive, because facility based competition induced a much higher …