Catching up in broadband regressions: does local loop unbundling really lead to material increases in OECD broadband uptake?

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Catching up in broadband regressions: does local loop unbundling really lead to material increases in OECD broadband uptake?

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Local loop unbundling has been widely promulgated by policy-makers as a significant factor stimulating broadband uptake and therefore an essential component of a developing ‘information economy’. Whilst empirical evidence on this issue is sparse, one recent study commissioned and published by the OECD (OECD, 2007) does find a statistically significant effect of unbundling on broadband uptake. On closer examination however, the economic magnitude of this effect is trivial. Moreover, once the e...

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Conference paper

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2008

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Boyle, G. / Howell, B. / Zhang, W.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2410

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Fields of Research::290000 Engineering and Technology::291700 Communications Technologies::291706 Broadband network technology

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