Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry

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Contents: Preface Stephen Schmidt Prologue Erik Bohlin Introduction and Synopsis of the Book: Evolving Technologies, Competition and the New Role of Regulation Anastassios Gentzoglanis and Anders Henten PART I: REGULATION VERSUS INVESTMENT: THE BALANCE BETWEEN STATIC AND DYNAMIC EFFICIENCIES AND THE MAIN ISSUES OF REGULATORY POLICY 1. Investment in Broadband Technologies and the Role of Regulation Anastassios Gentzoglanis and Elias Aravantinos 2. Intermodal Telecommunications Competition: Implications for Regulation of Wholesale Services William E. Taylor 3. Access Regulation versus Infrastructure Investment: Important Lessons from Australia Martyn Taylor 4. Behavioral Economics and Telecommunications Policy Patrick Xavier and Dimitri Ypsilanti PART II: TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF COMPETITION AND REGULATION 5. The Measure and Regulation of Competition in Telecommunications Markets Marcel Boyer 6. Preventing Harm in Telecommunications Regulation: A New Matrix of Principles and Rules Within the ex ante versus ex post Debate Kenneth Jull and Stephen Schmidt 7. The Transformation of Telecoms industry Structure: An Event Study Olaf Rieck PART III: ACCESS REGULATION AND PERFORMANCE IN THE DEPLOYMENT OF NGN: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES 8. From the Pursuit of Efficiency to the Pursuit of Competition in New Zealand's Evolving Telecommunications Market Bronwyn Howell 9. International Regulatory Comparisons: The Evolution of IP-based Fiber Scott Marcus and Dieter Elixmann PART IV: STRUCTURAL SEPARATION AND REGULATION OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY 10. Diffusion of Broadband Internet and Structural Separation Arata Kamino and Hidenori Fuke 11. Implementing Functional Separation in Fixed Telecommunications Markets: The UK Experience Peter Curwen and Jason Whalley 12. Efficiency and Sustainability of Network Neutrality Proposals Toshiya Jitsuzumi PART V: INTERDEPENDENT INNOVATIONS AND REGULATORY POLICIES - MOBILE NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND MOBILE INTERNET DEVELOPMENTS 13. Interdependent Innovation in Telecommunications: Risk, Standardization and Regulation Bruno Basalisco, Andy Reid and Paul Richards 14. Next Generation Mobile Networks Deployment and Regulation in the European Union Claudio Feijoo, Sergio Ramos and Jose-Luis Gomez-Barroso 15. Mobile Internet Developments in Europe, East Asia and the US Morten Falch, Anders Henten and Karsten Vandrup Index