info: Volume 5 Issue 1
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Should broadband be part of universal service obligations?
Patrick XavierThere is growing concern that some groups without access to high‐speed broadband networks, e.g. those residing in rural and remote areas, will be unable to benefit from online…
Designing next generation telecom regulation: ICT convergence or multi‐sector utility?
Anders Henten, Rohan Samarajiva, William MelodyThis article critically examines the multiple rationales for telecom, IT, media convergence regulation, on the one hand, and multisector utility regulation, on the other, and the…
Accommodative competitive entry policies and telecommunications regulation
Mark Kolesar, Dennis L. WeismanAccommodative competitive entry policies (unbundling, resale and interconnection) yield contestable retail telecommunications markets. The combination of setting efficient prices…
Development of the telecommunications market in Germany since liberalisation
Dieter Elixmann, Rolf Schwab, Cornelia StappenWhen the German telecommunications market was opened up entirely to competition it was mainly characterized by a monopoly in the fixed‐link segment and a duopoly in the cellular…
Transparency on the Net: functions and deficiencies of Internet search engines
Marcel Machill, Christoph Neuberger, Friedemann SchindlerSearch engines exist to help sort through all the information available on the Internet, but have thus fair failed to shoulder any responsibility for the content which appears on…