Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate from 'Old' to 'New' Technology

48 Pages Posted: 1 Aug 2011

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Marc Bourreau

Telecom ParisTech

Carlo Cambini

Politecnico di Torino & EUI - Florence School of Regulation; European University Institute - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS)

Pinar Dogan

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Date Written: July 28, 2011

Abstract

In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an "old" technology to a "new" technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration. We show that a higher access charge on the legacy network pushes the entrant firm to invest more, but has an ambiguous effect on the incumbent's investments, due to two conflicting effects: the wholesale revenue effect, and the business migration effect. If both the old and the new infrastructures are subject to ex-ante access regulation, we also find that the two access charges are positively correlated.

Keywords: Access pricing, Investment, Next generation networks

JEL Classification: L96, L51

Suggested Citation

Bourreau, Marc and Cambini, Carlo and Dogan, Pinar, Access Pricing, Competition, and Incentives to Migrate from 'Old' to 'New' Technology (July 28, 2011). HKS Working Paper No. RWP11-029, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1898275 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1898275

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