Fiber deployment in Spain

Joan Calzada, Begoña García-Mariñoso (), Jordi Ribé (), Rafael Rubio-Campillo () and David Suarez ()
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Begoña García-Mariñoso: Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
Jordi Ribé: Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
Rafael Rubio-Campillo: Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
David Suarez: Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia

No 2017/364, UB School of Economics Working Papers from University of Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: Next generation access networks will be critical for future economic growth and access to these infrastructures will have major consequences for territorial and social cohesion. This paper examines the economic and regulatory determinants that serve as incentives for operators to invest in fiber-to-the-home technology. We draw on a dataset comprising 6,063 Spanish municipalities with access to broadband services to examine the incumbents’ (Telefónica) deployment of fiber in the period 2010-13. We show that local loop unbundling competition had a strong positive impact on Telefónica’s fiber deployment, while bitstream competition had a negative effect. Moreover, the incumbent was more likely to invest in municipalities with a large presence of cable operators. We also consider how the municipalities’ sociodemographic characteristics affected the operator’s deployment decision. While market size and population density had a positive effect on investment, the level of unemployment and the percentage of elderly population had a negative impact.

Keywords: Fiber; Broadband; Competition; Regulation; Telecommunications; Municipalities. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L12 L13 L51 L52 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2017
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