New Zealand’s amended Telecommunications Act, 2018 New Regulatory Framework, describes new regulations primarily based on regulation already used in electricity lines, gas pipelines, and airports. This regulatory approach, new to the telecommunications sector and known as the Building Blocks...

This paper presents the results of a computational application that dynamically models competition between two Next-Generation Networks (NGN) called platforms. As NGNs serve multiple types of consumers, we consider end-users and content providers who both require connection to the platform. The...

The advancement of information technologies such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing and the increasing deployment and use of the Internet of Things have promoted the capture, processing and storage of data over the last few years at a rate not seen before. The amount of data that are created,...

Data marketplaces, such as Datacoup and Datum, have emerged as a new business paradigm where data are traded as commodities. In a data marketplace, people, or data owners, can monetise their private data. However, it is rarely investigated how much loss that the data owners experience when they...

In many jurisdictions, regulation of telecommunications operators has been based on analysis of the forward-looking costs over the long run of an efficient operator. This regulatory approach, which focusses on the forward-looking replacement cost of an operators network, was viewed as assisting...