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Competition
Policy in Telecommunications Resources
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This page has been designed to provide some
background information on the topic of competition policy as applied
to the area of telecommunications.
For a primer on competition policy and
law in general, please click here.
This list of resources is not exhaustive. If you would
like additional related resources to be reflected, please contact
Eric Lie at competition@itu.int.
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| Introduction and
general resources
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World Bank, Telecommunications
Regulation Handbook - Module
5 Competition Policy,
Hank Intven, November 2000
Controlling Market Power in Telecommunications: Antitrust vs.
Sector-Specific Regulation, Damien Gerardin and Michel Kerf, 2002,
Oxford University Press
Competition Law and Regulation in European Telecommunications,
Pierre Larouche, 2000, Hart Publishing
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| Market definition
and dominance
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Paper prepared for the European Commission (DGCOMP), Market
Definition in Telecommunications, Jordi Gual, September 2002
Paper prepared for the ITS2000
Conference, Relevant
Markets and Conditions of Entry in Telecommunications Services in
Brazil: Implications for antitrust and regulatory analysis,
Mario L. Possas and Jorge Fagundes, July 2000
European
Commission guidelines on market analysis and the assessment of
significant market power under the Community regulatory framework
for electronic communications networks and services, July 2002
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| Institutional
approaches
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
Competition Policy Roundtables, Relationship
between Regulators and Competition Authorities,
June 1999
Paper
prepared for the 1999 World Bank-CAE Conference on Governance,
Equity and Global Markets, The
Institutional Infrastructure of Competition Policy, Jean Tirole,
June 1999
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| Competition issues
in telecommunications
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
Competition Policy Roundtables, Competition
and Regulation Issues in Telecommunications,
February 2002
Article from Telecommunications Policy Online, International
Roaming Charges: Overcharging and competition law, Ewan
Sutherland, International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG),
March 2001
Article from the International Journal of Communications Law and
Policy, Access Issues under EU Regulation and Anti-Trust
Law,
Herbert Ungerer, July 2000
Introduction paper prepared for the Internet Law Program, Berkman
Center for Internet and Society, Access
to the Internet, Yochai Benkler, May 2002
Report prepared by Antelope Consulting for the Department for
International Development, UK, The
costs of Internet Access in Developing Countries: Overview Report,
Claire Milne, October 2001
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| Mergers and
acquisitions
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Final Report for the 2002 European Commission Workshop on Vertical
Mergers Agreements in the New Economy, Competition
Assessment of Vertical Mergers and Vertical Agreements in the New
Economy, Gide, Loyrette and Nouel, November 2001
Network
effects and merger analysis: instant messaging and the AOL-Time
Warner case, Gerald Faulhaber, June 2002
Merger
Control and Remedies Policy in Telecommunications Mergers in the EU
and US,
Gilles Le Blanc and Howard Shelanski, August 2002
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| National
telecommunications competition policy material
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European Commission
United States Federal Communications Commission, Regulator's
Guide: Competition in Telecommunications Services
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Telecommunications
Group
Fair Trade Commission of Japan,
Guidelines
for Promotion of Competition in the Telecommunications Business
Field, November 2001
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA), Hong Kong,
China has published a Report
on the Effectiveness of Competition in Hong Kong's
Telecommunications Market: An International Comparison ,
June 2003
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| Related material
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The European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) provides, under
its Competition Law Compliance Programme, a useful guide
to EU Competition Law as applied to the telecommunications
standardization process.
Article from the International Journal of Communications Law and
Policy, Convergence,
Competition and Regulation, Campbell Cowie &
Christopher T. Marsden, June 1998 - with a focus on
broadcasting.
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ITU
Workshop on Competition Policy in Telecommunications (Geneva, November 2002)
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