In this paper we study how the migration from an old to a new technology is affected by the access price to the old … set a very high access price to accelerate consumers’ migration to the new technology. When the quality of the old … technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the new technology, the old technology is completely switched off …

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 …

We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next … requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of a NGN … that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the new network is …

We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next …, that requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of … a NGN that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the NGN is …

access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors …