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http://bit.ly/IntePlat
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Monolith idea of telecom regulation
● Of the “Lower Layer”
○ Static hardware, not
a social creation
● Regulation can assure
networks that are:
● Affordable
○ Low costs
● Reliable
○ Interoperable
● Universal access
○ Innovations
diffuse
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However, platforms are not landlines
1. Non-linear innovation
(e.g Google)
2. Interconnectedness of innovation
(e.g. App stores)
3. Financial, technical & social costs of regulation are
neither trivial nor clear
(e.g. Yahoo & China, uTorrent, spam)
4. By encouraging innovation, costs of obsolescence
threaten ‘incumbent’ monopolies and oligopolies
(e.g. PayPal, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype)
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Platforms need ecosystem thinking
Different businesses
with different cost
models
Asymmetrical power
Some innovations, but
not all, require
complementary
advances
Regulating
experimental
advances
Anti-trust and IP law
Interdependencies
… none of which are accounted for
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