Journal article
Regulation and investment behaviour in the telecommunications sector: policies and patterns in US and Europe
Telecommunications policy, v 27(10), pp 677-699
01 Nov 2003
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Abstract
This paper reports the results of the quantitative analysis of international experience of the relationship between infrastructure investment in the deployment of capacity that can carry large volumes of voice and data traffic and regulatory policy changes in the telecommunications sectors. It looks at the relationship between infrastructure investment for these infrastructure assets and the access pricing régimes for local exchange carriers in the United States and Europe. It then looks at the relationship between various aspects of regulatory and institutional policy changes in Europe and how they affect access prices.
The paper finds that a lower access price promotes greater deployment of digital technology among US incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs). Based on this finding, it suggests that it is in the ILECs interest to have access to their networks encouraged.
The European data for interconnection are recent and far reaching conclusions are not feasible, but the findings, however, suggest that competition has worked by facilitating new entry through decreasing interconnection prices, although path dependencies, of existing and traditional concepts, in the mindsets of operators as well as regulators, may account for these findings.
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- Title
- Regulation and investment behaviour in the telecommunications sector: policies and patterns in US and Europe
- Creators
- Hsihui Chang - The University of Texas at DallasHeli Koski - Research Institute of the Finnish EconomySumit K. Majumdar - The University of Texas at Dallas
- Publication Details
- Telecommunications policy, v 27(10), pp 677-699
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Accounting
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000186504200004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0142247071
- Other Identifier
- 991020535063504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Communication
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