Regulation and Investment in Telecom Network Infrastructure Facilities: The Recent Developments and Debates

Inès Ben Dkhil

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Abstract: The regulation has the greatest role in forcing the introduction and the establishment of competition in the fixed telecom markets by facilitating the entrants’ access conditions to the incumbent’s infrastructure facilities (the local loop). Recently, the sole way to ensure the development of telecom industry consists to promote innovation and investment in network infrastructure technologies. This paper provides a critical review of both recent theoretical and empirical literature that address the issues of regulation on innovation and investment in the fixed telecommunication in-frastructures.

Keywords: bottleneck; access regulation policies; investment in network upgrade; service-based competition; facility-based competition. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 L1 L12 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-01, Revised 2015-02-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-cse, nep-ino, nep-net, nep-pay and nep-reg
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