Papua New Guinea is a low‐middle income, developing, Pacific country whose telecommunications market has developed under regulatory arrangements strongly influenced by Australian policymaking. Nevertheless, it demonstrates very weak performance compared to similar low‐middle income...

Papua New Guinea is a low-middle income developing Asia-Pacific island country with a relatively long history of telecommunications market development under firstly Australian administration, and latterly under a pro-competitive set of regulatory arrangements strongly influenced by Australian...

Papua New Guinea is a low-middle income developing Asia-Pacific island country with a relatively long history of telecommunications market development under firstly Australian administration, and latterly under a pro-competitive set of regulatory arrangements strongly influenced by Australian...

This paper describes MLR in utility markets, explains how globalization drives MLR, and describes how MLR in turn causes firms to become even more global, as each firm strives to enter into markets further and further removed from its traditional markets. It first describes the industry...

There is general concern that producer subsidies distort competition. We examine a telecommunications subsidy system that transfers money from low cost regions to high cost regions of the U.S. Even though the system is designed to be competitively neutral, we find evidence that the system,...

We consider how government-owned enterprises choose markets and affect privately-owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally-owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that competitive local exchange companies (CLEC)...