Add to ORKGSince 1991 Australian telecommunications has undergone substantial reform. To a large extent, the economic correctness of pro-competitive policy depends on the non-existence of natural monopoly technology. This paper provides estimates of the Australian telecommunications system cost structure, and tests for subadditivity from 1943 to 1991. Additivity of the cost function after 1945 rejects the natural monopoly hypothesis and supports recent government policy. Diminished natural monopoly characteristics suggest that co-ordination between firms through networking can achieve similar economies as internal co-ordination within a monopoly. This finding is important, given the trend towards network unbundling, and service provision through inter...
For most of the last century, telephone services and telecommunication services more generally were ...
Telecommunication facility has been provided in most countries as a user pay public service managed,...
Recent moves toward contestable universal service markets for rural areas raises issues of measuring...
Since 1991 Australian telecommunications has undergone substantial reform. To a large extent, the ec...
Telecommunications deregulation in 1997 meant the removal of all significant barriers to entry. Gove...
This paper employs a composite cost function to examine the cost structure of Australian telephone s...
Better to fix Telstra’s problems now, not later, argues John Quiggin THE DEBATE on the privat...
UnrestrictedThe U.S. telecommunications industry has been the subject of many studies since the dive...
The consent decree that restructured the telecommunications industry by breaking up the Bell System ...
Deregulation and the successful introduction of competition to the market for telephone services rai...
Over the last quarter century, significant changes have occurred in telecommunications. The breakup ...
This dissertation addresses the issue of cost subadditivity of two Canadian telecommunications carri...
Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framework that h...
Abstract: Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framew...
The persistence of the market power in the fixed telecommunication markets in both developed and dev...
For most of the last century, telephone services and telecommunication services more generally were ...
Telecommunication facility has been provided in most countries as a user pay public service managed,...
Recent moves toward contestable universal service markets for rural areas raises issues of measuring...
Since 1991 Australian telecommunications has undergone substantial reform. To a large extent, the ec...
Telecommunications deregulation in 1997 meant the removal of all significant barriers to entry. Gove...
This paper employs a composite cost function to examine the cost structure of Australian telephone s...
Better to fix Telstra’s problems now, not later, argues John Quiggin THE DEBATE on the privat...
UnrestrictedThe U.S. telecommunications industry has been the subject of many studies since the dive...
The consent decree that restructured the telecommunications industry by breaking up the Bell System ...
Deregulation and the successful introduction of competition to the market for telephone services rai...
Over the last quarter century, significant changes have occurred in telecommunications. The breakup ...
This dissertation addresses the issue of cost subadditivity of two Canadian telecommunications carri...
Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framework that h...
Abstract: Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framew...
The persistence of the market power in the fixed telecommunication markets in both developed and dev...
For most of the last century, telephone services and telecommunication services more generally were ...
Telecommunication facility has been provided in most countries as a user pay public service managed,...
Recent moves toward contestable universal service markets for rural areas raises issues of measuring...