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    Kris Funston (Regulatory Economist)

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  1. UWS City Research Centre Level 8, AEGIS, 263 Clarence Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia

    Russel Cooper

  2. School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School, 1 Kent Street, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia

    Gary Madden (Director, CEEM) & Michael Schipp (Director, CEEM) & 

  3. School of Inforamtion Systems, Curtin Business School, 1 Kent Street, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia

    Ashley Lloyd (Optus Chair in e-Business) (Optus Chair in e-Business)

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Funston, K. (2006). Real Options and Telecommunications Regulation. In: Cooper, R., Madden, G., Lloyd, A., Schipp, M. (eds) The Economics of Online Markets and ICT Networks. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7908-1707-4_8

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