Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry

Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 17
Preface......Page 18
Evolving technologies, competition and the new role of regulation: introduction and synopsis of the book......Page 20
PART I  Regulation versus investment: the balance between static and dynamic efficiencies and the main issues of regulatory policy......Page 38
1. Investment in broadband technologies and the role of regulation......Page 40
2. Intermodal telecommunications competition: implications for regulation of wholesale services......Page 62
3. Access regulation versus infrastructure investment: important lessons from Australia......Page 82
4. Behavioral economics and telecommunications policy......Page 102
PART II  Technology convergence and the future role of competition and regulation......Page 126
5. The measure and regulation of competition in telecommunications markets......Page 128
6. Preventing harm in telecommunications regulation: a new matrix of principles and rules within the ex ante versus ex post debate......Page 147
7. The transformation of telecoms industry structure: an event study......Page 168
PART III  Access regulation and performance in the deployment of NGNs: international experiences......Page 184
8. From the pursuit of efficiency to the pursuit of competition in New Zealand’s evolving telecommunications market......Page 186
9. International regulatory comparisons: the evolution of IP-based fiber......Page 207
PART IV  Structural separation and regulation of the telecommunications industry......Page 228
10. Diffusion of broadband Internet and structural separation......Page 230
11. Implementing functional separation in fixed telecommunications markets: the UK experience......Page 252
12. Efficiency and sustainability of network neutrality proposals......Page 272
PART V  Interdependent innovations and regulatory policies: mobile network deployment and mobile Internet developments......Page 292
13. Interdependent innovation in telecommunications: risk, standardization and regulation......Page 294
14. Next generation mobile networks deployment and regulation in the European Union......Page 320
15. Mobile Internet developments in Europe, East Asia and the US......Page 336
Index......Page 360