Competition, regulation and broadband access to the internet

Georg Götz

22nd European Regional ITS Conference, Budapest 2011: Innovative ICT Applications - Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues from International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Abstract: This paper re-examines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the optimal regulatory regime is and whether and how high-speed access to the internet should be subsidized. Using an approach similar to Valletti et al. (2002), the paper highlights the importance of population density for whether firms invest to provide internet access. The analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and penetration.

Keywords: broadband internet; penetration; coverage; subsidies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ict, nep-ind and nep-reg
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Journal Article: Competition, regulation, and broadband access to the internet (2013)
Working Paper: Competition, Regulation, and Broadband Access to the Internet (2009)
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