This paper means to add to empirical research on the impact of local loop unbundling (LLU) on broadband networks. In particular, it focuses on broadband investment made by entrants. Starting from late Nineties telecommunications incumbents of several European Union countries have been required...

Are advanced countries bound to follow a specialisation path in their innovation activities? This paper contributes to the issue by analysing the dynamic of innovation activities in telecommunications (TLCs) at the country level. Our claim is that countries are more likely to innovate in a...

Using country-level time series and firm-level panel data, we show that telecommunications investment and competition have evolved quite independently, at least in OECD economies. The literature findings on this subject are quite mixed, but we here strengthen empirical evidence employing a set...