L'ouverture des réseaux: planification ou concurrence dans les télécommunications et d'autres services publics

Nicolas Curien and Michel Gensollen

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 1989, issue 15-16, 355-388

Abstract: The present progress in the information processing technology is having a drastic impact on the telecommunications industry and on many public networks by creating a separation between two components: on the one hand, the network made up of the infrastructures; on the other hand, the command networks which monitor the former and use it as a support for the provision of differentiated services. Whereas the network of infrastructures is a natural monopoly which should however be disciplined through the threat of potential competition, the command networks are likely to be offereed in a competitive market; the latter should nevertheless be organized, if not planned, due to externalities such as security and interoperability.

Date: 1989
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