320 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
320 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
320 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development in competition policy. An econometric model is proposed and discussed to analyse access demand.... Read more
Chapter 1. Competition Policy in the Broadband Era, Part I. Broadband Economics Basics and Analytical Tools, Chapter 2. Broadband in Japan, Chapter 3. Network Economics, Chapter 4. Discrete Choice Model Analysis, Part II. The Current Status of Japan’s Broadband, Chapter 5. Fixed-line Broadband, Chapter 6. IP Telephony, Chapter 7. Mobile Telephony, Part III. The Future of Japan’s Broadband, Chapter 8. Fiber to the Home, Chapter 9. The future of Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Chapter 10. The Digital Divide, Appendix to Chapter 1. Critical market share of vertically integrated firms
Biography
Takanori Ida is Professor of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan.
