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Principles for the governance and regulation of digital platforms
Should digital platforms be regulated using clear principles or presecriptive rules? How should regulators decide which platform markets to regulate?
Post Covid Telecoms: A System Dynamics Model of Demand Side Shock
SPC Network and DAS have updated our System Dynamics model of investment determinants to capture the demand side shock in broadband services caused by Covid 19 and the lockdown.
Determinants of Investment in VHCNs reveals important findings to meet Gigabit Society targets
Latest edition of Hexagon summarises main findings of report for BEREC
Charity Donations 2019
SPC Network delighted to support YMCA Norfolk and Human Milk Foundation
Should Digital Platforms be Regulated
Interview with Benoit Reillier of Launchworks
Defining Digital Platforms: An Indirect Challenge
Is the Hypotehtical Monopolist Test fit for purpose to define digital platform markets? What can regulators learn from the economics of indirect constraints?
Fibre: Taking the Right Steps
To get the broadband infrastructure and consumer benefit that are needed, regulators have to abandon the short-term thinking that can stifle new entrants and investment, argue RICHARD CADMAN, JONATHAN KINGAN and GITA SORENSEN
Ex ante regulation of digital platforms: Challenges for the three criteria test
Amid calls for regulation of digital platforms can the Three Criteria Test be used to indetify where ex ante regulation is relevant?
Finding Collective Dominance in an ex ante Environment
• Draft European Electronics Communications Code places more emphasis on collective dominance. • Ex post conditions well known, but how should an NRA find collective dominance ex ante? • Guidance is needed to ensure focus on structural market conditions
Competition Appeal Tribunal Judgement: How to Define a Market
How to define a market: Lessons from the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal