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Regulatory Unbundling in Telecommunications

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Due to its dynamic nature, and the increasing importance of competitive subparts, the telecommunications sector provides particularly interesting insights for studying regulatory unbundling. Based on the theory of monopolistic bottlenecks the fallacies of overregulation by undue unbundling obligations are indicated. Neither the promotion of infrastructure competition by mandatory unbundling of competitive subparts of telecommunications infrastructure, nor regulatory induced network fragmentation within monopolistic bottleneck components is justified. The impact of the shrinking of the areas of network specific market power on the remaining unbundling regulation is analyzed. Finally, the phasing-out potentials of unbundling regulation in European telecommunications markets are pointed out.

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  • G. Knieps, 2011. "Regulatory Unbundling in Telecommunications," Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Intersentia, vol. 12(4), pages 344-357, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sen:journl:v:12:i:4:y:2011:p:344-357
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    1. Marius Buchmann, 2016. "Information Management in Smart Grids - Who Should Govern Information Management to Balance Between Coordination and Competition on the Distribution Grid Level?," Bremen Energy Working Papers 0022, Bremen Energy Research.
    2. Knieps, Günter, 2014. "Competition and third party access in railroads," Discussion Papers 150, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.
    3. Knieps, Günter, 2013. "Market versus state in building the aviation value chain," Discussion Papers 146, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.
    4. Knieps, Günter, 2013. "The evolution of the generalized differentiated services architecture and the changing role of the Internet engineering task force," Discussion Papers 147, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.
    5. Knieps, Günter, 2012. "Competition and the railroads: A European perspective," Discussion Papers 142, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.
    6. Knieps, Günter & Stocker, Volker, 2014. "The fallacies of regulatory market splits: Network neutrality regulation ante portas," Discussion Papers 151, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.
    7. Knieps, Günter & Zenhäusern, Patrick, 2013. "Regulatory fallacies in global telecommunications: The case of international mobile roaming," Discussion Papers 144, University of Freiburg, Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy.

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