Research and Markets : Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications examines how to ensure investment in future networks

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22314) has announced the addition of Research Note: Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications - Essays on International Public Policy to their offering

With T3 on the way, there's never been a better time to understand the financial and investment implications of telecommunications policy.

The collected essays published in Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications provide insightful, well-researched commentary on telecommunications policy, pricing, competition and regulation in Australia.

As well as informing the debate about regulation of the industry after Telstra is fully privatized, Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications examines how to ensure investment in future networks, the replacement of the existing price cap regime, and the new Issues that arise with operational separation.

Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications finds that current policy directions and regulation are flawed and will not deliver the outcomes sought by the Minister. The current regime does not offer sufficient incentives to new infrastructure based competition and this will inhibit investment. For example, de Ridder argues that the current scramble to roll-out DSLAMs relies on existing copper providing only "quasi-facility-based competition" which does not address future needs.

As well as providing a detailed critique of existing policy and regulation, Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications also points to other approaches offering more light-handed regulation and more efficient market and investment outcomes.

The author, John de Ridder, is a telecommunications economist with over twenty years acquired knowledge and experience of the telecommunications sector. He played several key roles in Telstra's transition from government monopoly to a partially privatized communications company subject to full competition


Contents are entitled as follows:-


Taming Telstra - Transparency
Investment - Sustainable Competition
Contestability - A New Paradigm
Regulation of the Internet
Regulation - Miscellaneous
Retail Pricing - Various


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