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SPC Network will make available papers covering members’ thoughts on the key issues of the day.
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- Equivalence of input and functional separation: A framework for analysis
This paper identifies the importance of providing access on equivalent terms to all operators using Next Generation Networks. The report looks at the reality of competition in telecommunications, the UK experience of setting up a functionally separated access network unit, and the difference that equivalence can make to investment in networks and in competitive outcomes.
- Improving Business Communications in the UK
The UK telecoms market for residential consumers has improved markedly in recent years, but are business customers equally well served? This SPC Network report produced for UKCTA explores where market failures still exist and sets out an eight point action plan for Ofcom.
- 2007 US Addendum to Regulatory Scorecard
CompTel, the leading US industry association representing competitive communications providers, compares the regulatory performance of the US against European countries.
- NGN Interconnection Charging Principles
This paper prepared by SPC Network for NGNuk explores whether the charging principles applicable in current generation networks, such as Calling Party Network Pays, remain appropriate once Next Generation Networks are implemented.
- ECTA/Jones Day/SPC Network Regulatory Scorecard 2005
Significant differences continue to exist in the implementation of the European regualtory framework. Those countries which have the best regualtory framework for the promotion of competition and innovation continue to attract the highest levels of investment.
- ECTA, Jones Day, SPC Network Regulatory Scorecard 2006
ECTA’s 2006 Regulatory Scorecard clearly demonstrates that, more than three years after the existing European Framework for Telecoms Regulatory came into force, it has not yet been fully implemented in many countries. As a consequence business and residential consumers in some countries are losing out on the benefits of competition.
- USA Addendum to European Regulatory Scorecard
CompTel/ALTS, the leading US industry association representing competitive communications providers, has released an addendum to the ECTA/Jones Day/SPC Network European Regulatory Scorecard that shows the United States is lagging behind European countries when it comes to implementing policies necessary for sustainable competition in the communications sector.
- Interconnect 2005 Presentation
Slide presentation given by Richard Cadman, Director of SPC Network, at Interconnect 2005 held in Prage, 7 - 10th February 2005
- Broadband Access Markets in Europe: Why Regulation should Promote Competition
Active competition between Europe’s cable and DSL providers of broadband access is good for broadband take-up: investors looking for market growth should also look at competitive intensity. Strategy and Policy Consultants Network Ltd (SPC Network) has developed an econometric model to test the importance of inter-modal competition as a determinant of broadband take-up in the EU. The model demonstrates that about half the variation in penetration rates can be accounted for by variations in the degree of market concentration.
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