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Multi-Level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector Multi-Level Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector Adaptive Regulatory Arrangements in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland Editedby David Aubin AssociateProfessorofPoliticalScience,UniversitécatholiquedeLouvain,Belgium Koen Verhoest ResearchProfessor,DepartmentofPoliticalScience,UniversityofAntwerp,Belgium Selection,introduction,conclusionandeditorialmatter©DavidAubin andKoenVerhoest2014 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-00491-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-66820-5 ISBN 978-1-137-00492-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137004925 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. Transferred to Digital Printing in 2014 Contents ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes vii Acknowledgements xi NotesonContributors xiii ListofAbbreviations xvi 1 Aim,CentralClaimsandStructureoftheBook 1 KoenVerhoestandDavidAubin 2 AssessingtheRegulatoryArrangements:Concepts, TheoriesandMethods 12 DavidAubin,EmmanuelleMathieu,JoeryMatthys andKoenVerhoest 3 RegulationofTelecommunicationsinBelgium: OrganizationalComplexityandRegulatoryEffectiveness 45 EmmanuelleMathieuandDavidAubin 4 InformalRelationshipsandDeFactoIndependence oftheRegulatorintheIrishTelecommunications RegulatoryArrangement 78 MuirisMacCarthaigh 5 ToMergeorNottoMerge:TheInstitutionalRe-Designof TelecommunicationsRegulationintheNetherlands 108 KutsalYesilkagit 6 RegulationoftheTelecommunicationsinSwitzerland: ANetworkApproachtoAssesstheRegulatoryAgencies’ Independence 137 KarinIngoldandFrédéricVarone 7 AutonomyandDecision-MakingPowerofIndependent RegulatoryAgenciesinMulti-LevelArrangements 162 KoenVerhoest,DavidAubin,JoeryMatthys andEmmanuelleMathieu v vi Contents 8 EvolutionaryMulti-LevelRegulatoryArrangements:The ImpactsoftheResolutionofIncoherencies 203 DavidAubinandKoenVerhoest AppendixA:SocialNetworkAnalysisCalculationsforSwitzerland 235 AppendixB:AutonomyofSectorRegulatorsintheFourCountries 238 AppendixC:StandardCalculationoftheProceduralCoordination IndicesfortheFourCountries 243 AppendixD:ExtendedCalculationoftheProceduralCoordination IndicesfortheFourCountries 255 References 274 Index 286 Tables, Figures and Boxes Tables 2.1 Proceduralandnon-proceduralcoordination instruments 23 2.2 Mainmacro-structuraldifferencesbetweenBelgium, Ireland,theNetherlandsandSwitzerland 34 2.3 OECDindicatorsofregulationinenergy,transportand communications(ETCR)fortelecommunicationsin Belgium,Ireland,theNetherlandsandSwitzerland 35 2.4 Scaleforthemeasurementofactors’influencein individualdecisions 38 2.5 Equationstocalculatetheprocedural coordinationindices 39 3.1 Relationshipbetweenregulatorygovernancemodels andproblemsofregulatoryeffectivenesswithcausal mechanisms 70 4.1 ExpressionsofinformalityintheIrishtelecoms regulatoryarrangement 105 5.1 Costsofregulatorycoordinationandregulatory coherenceforpolicymakersandmarketparties 116 6.1 MarketsharesofSwisstelecomsoperatorsby31 December2010(in%) 146 6.2 CliquesintheSwissnetworkofstrongcontacts(min. size:5) 153 6.3 DegreecentralityofinfluencerelationsinSwisstelecoms regulatoryframework(mean10,7) 156 6.4 Overviewoftheactors’networkintheSwiss telecommunicationssector 158 7.1 CapacitiesofthesectorIRAinthetelecommunications sectorinthefourEuropeancountries 167 7.2 ComparisonofGilardiindicesforthetelecomsIRAs, measuringtheformalautonomyofagencies 170 7.3 Comparisonofqualitativescoresconcerningperceived defactoautonomyofthetelecomsIRAs 172 vii viii ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes 7.4 Verticalspecializationandcoordinationinthe telecommunicationssectorinthefour Europeancountries 175 7.5 Horizontalspecializationandcoordinationinthe telecommunicationssectorinthefour Europeancountries 179 7.6 Competitionversussectorregulationinthe telecommunicationssectorinthefour Europeancountries 182 7.7 Inter-sectoralspecializationandcoordinationinthe telecommunicationssectorinthefourEuropean countries 185 7.8 Comparisonofthetelecommunicationsregulatory arrangementsinthefourcountries,basedonthe standardcalculationoftheproceduralcoordination indices(2010) 189 8.1 Comparisonofthetelecommunicationsregulatory arrangementbetween2004and2010,based ontheextendedcalculationoftheprocedural coordinationindices 205 8.2 Perceivedincoherenciesandtheirresolutioninfour countries 209 A.1 SectoralIRA,electedauthorities,regulateesand co-regulatorsinSwisstelecommunicationspolicy 235 A.2 GilardiindexforSwisstelecommunications(in2010, owncalculation) 237 B.1 Comparingthedefactoautonomyofsectorregulatorsin thefourcountriesbasedonCOBRAdimensions 238 C.1 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Belgium(in2010,standardcalculation) 243 C.2 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Ireland(in2010,standardcalculation) 247 C.3 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor theNetherlands(in2010,standardcalculation) 250 C.4 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Switzerland(in2010,standardcalculation) 253 D.1 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Belgium(in2004,extendedcalculation) 255 D.2 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Belgium(in2010,extendedcalculation) 258 ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes ix D.3 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Ireland(in2004,extendedcalculation) 261 D.4 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Ireland(in2010,extendedcalculation) 264 D.5 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor theNetherlands(in2004,extendedcalculation) 266 D.6 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor theNetherlands(in2010,extendedcalculation) 269 D.7 Calculationoftheproceduralcoordinationindicesfor Switzerland(in2004and2010,extendedcalculation)– nochanges 272 Figures 1.1 Analyticalframeworkofregulatoryarrangements 6 2.1 Asimplemodelofautonomyandregulatory decision-makingpower 25 2.2 Fouridealtypesofregulatoryarrangements 27 2.3 Asimplemodelofregulatoryarrangementandregulatory (in)coherence 29 2.4 OECDindicatorsofregulationinenergy,transportand communications(ETCR)fortelecommunicationsin Belgium,Ireland,theNetherlandsandSwitzerland 36 3.1 MappingoftheregulatoryarrangementintheBelgian telecommunicationssector 56 4.1 FixedrevenuemarketsharesinIreland(Q.3,2010) 86 4.2 Eircom’sshareofmarket(Q.3.2008–Q.1.2012) 86 4.3 ComRegexecutivestructure 88 4.4 MappingoftheregulatoryarrangementintheIrish telecommunicationssector 98 5.1 MappingoftheregulatoryarrangementintheDutch telecommunicationssector 122 6.1 MappingoftheregulatoryarrangementintheSwiss telecommunicationssector 142 6.2 InfluencerelationsamongregulatorsinSwisstelecoms policyimplementation 155 7.1 Relationshipbetweenautonomyandrelative decision-makingpower 163 7.2 Methodsusedtoanalyseformalautonomy,perceived autonomyandrelativedecision-makingpowerofthe sectorIRAintheregulatoryarrangement 165 x ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes 7.3 PositioningthefourEuropeancountriesaccording totheproceduralcoordinationindices(standard calculation–2010) 192 8.1 PositioningofthefourEuropeancountries accordingtotheproceduralcoordinationindices (extendedcalculation) 206 Boxes 8.1 TheHappyTimecaseinBelgium 211 8.2 TheopeningupoftheDutchcablemarket 212 8.3 2GlicencesextensioninBelgium 213 8.4 IncumbentdelaysinLLU:EircominIreland 215 8.5 UnbundlingthelastmileinSwitzerland 215 8.6 Regulationofaninternationaloperatorbyanational regulator:BSkyBinIreland 217 8.7 TheFTTHcaseinSwitzerland 217 8.8 RegionalizationofGSMantennas’regulationinBelgium 220 8.9 BroadcastingofMuzzikchannelintheNetherlands 220 8.10 RejectionofthefullSwisscomprivatization 221

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