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Investment in Broadband Technologies and the Role of Regulation

In: Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry

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  • Anastassios Gentzoglanis
  • Elias Aravantinos

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After decades of liberalization of the telecommunications industry around the world and technological convergence that allows for increasing competition, sector-specific regulation of telecommunications has been on the decline. As a result, the telecommunications industry stands in the middle of a debate that calls for either a total deregulation of access to broadband infrastructures or a separation of infrastructure from service delivery. This book proposes new approaches to dealing with the current and future issues of regulation of telecommunication markets on both a regional and a global scale.

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  • Anastassios Gentzoglanis & Elias Aravantinos, 2010. "Investment in Broadband Technologies and the Role of Regulation," Chapters, in: Anastassios Gentzoglanis & Anders Henten (ed.), Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry, chapter 1, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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