Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks

Duarte Brito, Pedro Pereira and João Vareda ()

No 35, Working Papers from Portuguese Competition Authority

Abstract: We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next generation network, NGN. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of a NGN that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the NGN is not. If the innovation is drastic, the incumbent always invests in the NGN, but does not give access to the entrant. If the innovation is non-drastic and if the access price to the old network is low, the incumbent voluntarily gives access to the NGN. If the innovation is non-drastic, there is no monotonic relation between the access price to the old network and the incumbent's incentives to invest. A regulatory moratorium emerges as socially optimal, if the innovation is large but non-drastic. We also analyze the case where both firms can invest in the deployment of a NGN.

Keywords: Next Generation Networks; Investment; Access; Regulation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L43 L51 L96 L98 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2008-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-mic and nep-net
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