Regulation and investment incentives for next generation broadband access networks

Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures: Markets, Policies and Pricing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-31

  Pietrunti, Mario ^a  

^a BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

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EID: 84881820079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781000823.00010     Document Type: Chapter

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