Competition enhancing regulation and diffusion of innovation: the case of broadband networks

Gruber, Harald; Koutroumpis, Pantelis

doi:10.1007/s11149-012-9205-4

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“…Moreover, the percentage of exchanges with LLU enabled also had a positive impact (0.02), but overall the results contrast with the findings of Gruber & Koutroumpis (2013). Their analysis found that diffusion and investment has taken place from intra-platform competition and less so from inter-platform competition, but it might be that the UK does not follow the same trend.…”

Section: Fixed Broadband Modelmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…This implies there is a high degree of interdependency between ICT infrastructure supply and demand. In contrast, Gruber & Koutroumpis (2013) found little evidence globally, across 167 broadband markets, that inter-platform competition across technologies (e.g. cable) accelerated broadband diffusion, instead pointing to the benefits of inter-firm and intra-platform competition on the incumbent's Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) platform.…”

Section: Fixed and Mobile Ict Infrastructure In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Who’s Superconnected and Who’s Not? Investment in the UK’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Infrastructure

Oughton

Tyler

Alderson

2015

Infrastruct. Complex

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The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure sector has dramatically expanded over the past decade as the demand for increased digital connectivity has increased from both companies and consumers. Broadband investment has been increasingly associated with positive economic growth and digital connectivity is seen as an essential ingredient with which to increase productivity, employment and create new enterprises. Hence, there is concern that companies and consumers in particular locations are disadvantaged if they are unable to obtain sufficient connectivity. At the present time there has been limited analysis of where new investment has taken place, why it has taken place in specific locations, and what the key economic and socio-economic drivers have been influencing this. The role of regulation in this process is also important to understand. This article draws on two unique, uncensored infrastructure datasets from the UK's telecommunications regulator Ofcom to assess the factors driving investment in fixed and mobile ICT infrastructure. The fixed infrastructure model utilised modem sync speed measurements from over 20 million premises, aggregated to 7004 Middle Super Output Areas (MSOA) (97.3 %) in England and Wales, to provide comprehensive micro-geographic analysis for the first time. The mobile model employed the average data transfer per premises as a network capacity-demand metric for 173 counties and Unitary Local Authorities (ULAs) (98.3 %) in England, Scotland and Wales. Using predictors at a range of spatial scales, multilevel modelling utilising Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods was used to estimate both the fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure models. The results confirm many of the prevailing postulates of existing telecommunications theory, namely, that dense, wealthy and well-educated areas are attractive investment hotbeds for telecommunication technologies. In the UK's fixed ICT infrastructure market, inter-platform competition was found to have a positive impact on investment compared to the mixed results found for intra-platform competition. On the whole, telecommunication investment in the UK appears to be driven by the same drivers as the much documented U.S. case, but further spatially granular research needs to be undertaken to examine the market dynamics between the incumbent and different forms of induced competition across the telecommunication network.

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Section: Fixed Broadband Modelmentioning

confidence: 81%

Section: Fixed and Mobile Ict Infrastructure In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who’s Superconnected and Who’s Not? Investment in the UK’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Infrastructure

Oughton

Tyler

Alderson

2015

Infrastruct. Complex

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“…LLU has been found to increase Internet adoption by increasing provision and lowering prices (see, e.g. Bauer, Berne, & Maitland, 2002;Grosso, 2006;Gruber & Koutroumpis, 2013;Lee, Marcu, & Lee, 2011).…”

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How do telecommunications reforms affect labour market arrangements? Evidence from Central and Western Europe

Vázquez

Winkler

2019

Econ of Transit and Inst Chang

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This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to investigate the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. We evaluate whether sectors that are technologically more dependent on information and communication technologies (ICT) experienced disproportionately larger changes in their employment outcomes after telecommunications reforms were introduced. Our main results point to a disproportionate increase in total employment, part‐time work and home‐based work among ICT‐dependent sectors after the implementation of telecommunications reforms. These results suggest that telecommunications reforms affected labour market arrangements by fostering the adoption of ICT. The results are robust to several specifications.

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“…Desde que el incremento de la penetración y uso de Internet fueron adoptados por consenso como imperativo global de los gobiernos, corporaciones del sector privado, y sociedad civil, en el marco de la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información en 2003, numerosos lineamientos de acción pública han sido formulados, entre los cuales se destacan aquellos dirigidos al fomento del despliegue de infraestructura, estímulos a la demanda, y asequibilidad del servicio. Las medidas diseñadas para mejorar las condiciones de acceso a la conectividad agrupan, comúnmente, las políticas de regulación que buscan fortalecer la competencia [6]; aumentar la eficiencia en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones a través del uso compartido de infraestructura [7]; afianzar un entorno propicio para la inversión privada mediante garantías de trato no discriminatorio entre proveedores, con base en principios de neutralidad tecnológica [8]; establecer un régimen de asignación de espectro transparente y predecible para favorecer la innovación [9]; e incluir en los procesos de asignación de licencias para uso de espectro, obligaciones específicas de cobertura, como alternativa para llevar a oferta a regiones que despiertan poco interés comercial [10]. La inversión pública, acompañada de medidas regulatorias para facilitar el acceso abierto a redes de backbone y backhaul, es otra práctica tendiente a reducir las barreras a la entrada de nuevos operadores [11].…”

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Brechas emergentes en el uso de Internet: un frente de acción a la zaga en Colombia

Coral

2018

I2+D

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El presente artículo expone los resultados de una investigación de carácter exploratorio, a través de la cual se analizó el alcance de los proyectos de inversión ejecutados por el Fondo de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, durante los dos últimos cuatrienios, para fomentar el acceso y uso de Internet en los hogares de estratos socio-económicos bajos. Elementos tales como la cobertura, oferta de servicios, selección de beneficiarios y ejecutores, diseño de las subvenciones aplicadas, y monto de la inversión, sirvieron como criterios orientadores en el desarrollo del análisis, y fueron complementados con la reconstrucción del contexto sectorial en el que cada proyecto ha sido implementado. El estudio de la política de servicio universal en Colombia permite concluir que existe un vacío ostensible de las dimensiones de uso que deben acompañar la oferta de infraestructura. Si bien, el despliegue subsidiado de redes de última milla, y el establecimiento de tarifas máximas del servicio de banda ancha, apuntan a superar barreas de asequibilidad que obstaculizan la difusión tecnológica, resulta imperativo desarrollar estrategias que incrementen la promesa de valor de uso de Internet, de tal modo que los beneficiarios no solo retribuyan la inversión pública mediante su disposición a pagar por el servicio, fortaleciendo la sostenibilidad de este tipo de proyectos, sino que además aprovechen las condiciones de acceso haciendo uso productivo de la red.

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Competition enhancing regulation and diffusion of innovation: the case of broadband networks

Cited by 74 publications

References 32 publications

Who’s Superconnected and Who’s Not? Investment in the UK’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Infrastructure

Who’s Superconnected and Who’s Not? Investment in the UK’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Infrastructure

How do telecommunications reforms affect labour market arrangements? Evidence from Central and Western Europe

Brechas emergentes en el uso de Internet: un frente de acción a la zaga en Colombia

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