The European Framework for Regulating Telecommunications: A 25-year Appraisal

Cave, Martín; Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso

doi:10.1007/s11151-019-09686-6

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“…Policy actions facilitating market liberalization and privatization were implemented in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) in the early 1980s and Europe in the 1990s. 3 These actions were the result of technical, political, economic, and social developments (Cave et al, 2019).…”

Section: Liberalization Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Threshold effects in the regulation-innovation nexus: evidence from the telecommunications industry

Polemis

Tselekounis

2021

J Regul Econ

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This study empirically tests the relationship between regulation and innovation in the telecommunications sector by deploying an efficient panel threshold model. The balanced panel dataset comprises of 32 OECD countries over the period 1995-2012. The empirical results unveil that beyond a certain threshold, a further increase in the (de)regulatory intensity leads to a decrease of the sectoral innovation activity. The empirical findings do explain the descriptive evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between regulation and innovation in the telecommunications sector since structural non-monotonic relationships are uncovered. Lastly, this study provides significant policy implications, arguing that regulators should develop mechanisms fostering innovation activity without much affecting the intensity of market competition.

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Section: Liberalization Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3 For an excellent review of the liberalization process in the OECD countries, see Duso and Seldeslachts (2010), as well as Laffont and Tirole (2001). Cave et al (2019) provide an exceptional review of the transformations made in the European fixed and mobile telecommunications markets during the last 25 years.…”

Section: Liberalization Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Threshold effects in the regulation-innovation nexus: evidence from the telecommunications industry

Polemis

Tselekounis

2021

J Regul Econ

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“…While the USA was among the pioneers for 1G, it fell behind the EU for 2G, which was associated with the enormous growth of mobile penetration. The European success of 2G was largely due to its focus on the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) as an EU-wide standard, while the USA left it to each of the mobile operators to choose a technology, because the major US-based carriers preferred different technologies (Cave et al, 2018). Because of its large installed 2G base and because of quitted 3G spectrum auctions the EU, however, lagged behind the USA in the penetration of 3G and 60…”

Section: Mobile Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Economics and Regulation of Network Industries

Vogelsang

2021

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Have you ever wondered how your telephone company or Internet service provider can give you access to almost all people in the world, or how electricity suppliers can compete with each other if there is only one electric supply line passing through your street? This Element deals with the economics and public regulation of such network industries. It puts particular emphasis on the specific economic concepts used for analyzing them and on the regulatory reform movement and the compatibility of regulation and competition. Worldwide most of these industries have changed dramatically in recent years, telecommunications in particular. Network industries mostly exhibit economies of scale in production and similar economies in consumption. Both of these properties cause market power problems that often require industry-specific regulation. However, due to technological and market changes network policies have moved on from end-user regulation to wholesale regulation and in some cases to deregulation.

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“…It combines exante measures and obligations, with ex-post control and supervision of market behaviour. This model was first introduced in the 1990s, when the openness and liberalization of former national telecommunication's monopolies started in the EU (Cave et al, 2019). The main idea of EU framework is the intervention by NRAs when a Telco operator has a position of significant power in a market, obligating it to provide access to its network to other operators willing to compete in that market (Intven, 2000).…”

Section: European Union Legal and Regulatory Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public aid for ultra-fast broadband development in archipelagos. The Canary Islands case

Hernández

Aguilar

Pérez

2020

DPRG

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Purpose This paper aims to study the results of the public aid programmes, through supply-side subsidies, for ultra-fast next generation access (NGA) broadband deployment that have been developed in The Canary Islands since 2013. These findings will, in turn, hopefully help the policymakers of archipelagos define their own ultra-fast broadband development plans. Design/methodology/approach An empirical approach has been used, based on the observation of the historical results obtained in the archipelago and the way broadband was diffused throughout the territory. Findings Results show that the broadband has developed asymmetrically in the archipelago, which, in turn, has caused the onset of a triple spatial digital divide. It was also observed that some aspects of the current way that such programmes are created and, consequently, the way that public funds are allocated, that could be improved and might help prevent geographical discrimination. Lastly, several insights have been presented for further investigation. Originality/value A large amount of scientific research has been carried out studying ultra-fast broadband NGA networks deployment. Less literature can be found on this topic when considering the specificities of fragmented territories like archipelagos. This paper tries to contribute with some empirical insights about such specific scenarios.

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The European Framework for Regulating Telecommunications: A 25-year Appraisal

Cited by 35 publications

References 22 publications

Threshold effects in the regulation-innovation nexus: evidence from the telecommunications industry

Threshold effects in the regulation-innovation nexus: evidence from the telecommunications industry

The Economics and Regulation of Network Industries

Public aid for ultra-fast broadband development in archipelagos. The Canary Islands case

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