TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Rapidly changing communication structures and an increasing potential for innovations due to new information technologies are shaping today’s telecommunication markets. Supporting these developments and securing their full economic potential requires appropriate regulation which stimulates and fosters competition. However, a too restrictive regulatory intervention can have also detrimental effects, if it diminishes incentives to invest in alternative technologies or next generation networks. Identifying such tradeoffs and assessing their relevance for e.g. specific countries and markets is a key issue in DIW econ’s work on telecommunications.

Our expertise in the telecommunications market includes:

regulatory policy and reform;
international comparisons of regulatory frameworks and market performance;
price reviews and assessment of relevant costs (incl. costs of capital estimation and asset valuation);
principles of network access and interconnection pricing;
costs and benefits of the Universal Service Obligation (USO);
local loop unbundling;
licence auctions and evaluation; and
competition policy.

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