Next Generation Access Networks and their Regulatory Implications

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Author(s): Ricardo Gonçalves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), Portugal)and Álvaro Nascimento (Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto), Portugal)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-194-0.ch004

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Networking and Telecommunications / Telecommunications

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The deployment of Next Generation Access networks (NGAs) is likely to have a significant impact on the telecommunications’ value chain and, consequently, on the necessary regulatory remedies. In particular, unlike existing telephone networks, NGAs present regulators with a dilemma, in so far as the possibility of regulatory intervention after network deployment (negatively) affects investment incentives for such a deployment. We review the current discussion surrounding NGAs and discuss some of the main regulatory challenges it presents.

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