Telecommunications: Japanese cable competition

Platform Competition in Telecommunications

Competition and regulation in telecommunications

Paul de Bijl* Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management), regulators (e.g. Opta, and the recently established competition authority NMa), and legislators, in their attempts to achieve efficient outcomes, are facing a complex task. An important lesson from economic theory – a lesson often serving as a practical shortcut – is that ‘effective’ competition, or c...

Facility based competition in telecommunications

In this paper we study network competition when costs differ among interconnected networks. Such cost differences are observed in the mobile sector as well as in fixed networks. In the paper we find that cost based regulation will not result in first best market shares. The low cost firm will be too small in equilibrium. This is partly due to tariff mediated network externalities. This result i...

Policy-induced competition: the telecommunications experiments

Introduction: Telephony has been the great “natural monopoly” of mid-century America. Early in the twentieth century, the policy of regulated monopoly for telephone was established; state and Federal regulation were based on this paradigm. By the late 1950s, there was some evidence that technology could be undermining the basis of this policy, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) beg...

Competition in the Long-Distance Telecommunications Industry