Access regulation on NGA–A financial, market-led solution to bridge the gap between US and European diverging regulatory approaches

Anchor product regulation – a new regulatory tool

“…Beyond the initial proposition by Williamson (2007) and adoption by Ofcom and the European Commission there has been little discussion of the concept of anchor product regulation in the literature. The concept is mentioned by Lewin (2008), Williamson (2009), Lewin et al (2009) and Siciliani (2010).…”

Aplicación del análisis tecno-económico al despliegue de redes de acceso de próxima generación. El caso de la competencia entre plataformas, la regulación y las políticas públicas en España

“…No obstante, estos planteamientos no encajan con la Recomendación de la CE ya que plantea la orientación a costes de todos los productos mayoristas (con prima de riesgo en algunos casos), si bien incluye mecanismos de flexibilización de los precios en forma de descuentos por duración y volumen de los contratos. Hasta el momento no es posible encontrar muchos ejemplos de este tipo de acuerdos, si bien en la literatura se recogen distintas aproximaciones a estos modelos planteando su capacidad para incentivar el despliegue de redes NGA en contraposición al modelo regulatorio clásico (Fredebeul-Krein & Knoben, 2010;Never, 2008;Siciliani, 2010).…”

Modeling the regulatory intervention in the telecommunications market

“…They conclude that although cost-based access prices lead to the aforementioned regulatory trade-off, there is still an ambiguity about access regulation and its linkage with overall investment incentives that should be further investigated. In this direction, Siciliani (2010) proposes a mechanism for preventing regulatory failures stemming from the demand-side uncertainty. However, according to OPTA (2008), not only the uncertainty about future demand for new fibre-based services deters the incumbent from investing in NGA networks, but also the regulatory uncertainty related to the regulator's limited ability to make ex ante credible commitments.…”

“…However, according to OPTA (2008), not only the uncertainty about future demand for new fibre-based services deters the incumbent from investing in NGA networks, but also the regulatory uncertainty related to the regulator's limited ability to make ex ante credible commitments. 2 Contrary to Siciliani (2010), we focus on the impact of regulatory uncertainty on the NGA investment level, which is one of the main open telecommunications policy issues worldwide. Since the regulators' goal is not only to encourage investments in NGA networks, but also to promote effective competition, the impact of regulatory uncertainty on the subsequent level of consumer surplus, which is used as a measure of the intensity of the competition in the retail market, will also be discussed.…”