Regulation and innovation in the telecommunications industry

Marc Bourreau and Pinar Dogan (pinar_dogan@hks.harvard.edu)

Telecommunications Policy, 2001, vol. 25, issue 3, 167-184

Abstract: This paper aims to introduce issues that relate regulation and innovation in the telecommunications industry. We try to address the following question: which types of regulatory schemes are likely to promote innovation in a fast-growing telecommunications industry? Section 2 analyses ex ante control by sector-specific regulation and ex post control by competition policies. Section 3 deals with the importance of compatibility hence regulation of standards in the telecommunications industry. Section 4 discusses the major issues pertaining to the relation between innovation and pricing on the one hand, and innovation and unbundling on the other.

Keywords: Innovation; Regulation; Asymmetry; Price; caps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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