This survey focuses on the application of real options methodology to the information and communications technology (ICT) industries. It examines the development of the methodology to areas as diverse as wireless cell site investments to dynamic pricing issues. In addition to aiding the reader...

With the boom in bit-intensive and live streaming content in the broadband Internet ecosystem, the phenomenon of increasing and persisting congestion on the Internet is no longer a mere engineering possibility, but a grave and imminent reality in developed nations. To deal with this problem,...

Network neutrality constitutes today an emerging branch of economic analysis. This article explores this literature to open the discussion to new economic issues observed from the industry's practical experience that have not been yet addressed by the existing literature.

The market for the exchange of traffic among networks on the Internet has proved to be remarkably efficient and adaptable.While the issue of network neutrality has dominated policy debates in recent years, the evolution of this market has begun to provide answers to many of the questions raised...

This contribution highlights some of the conclusions made by Ecorys in two studies that were commissioned by the European Commission: Truly Internal Market for e-communications (2012) and Future electronic communications markets subject to ex-ante regulation (2013). This contribution translates...

Several network operators have been deploying Quality of Service (QoS) techniques that help improve customer satisfaction and can have an impact on the cost of telecommunications services. As Long-Run Incremental Cost (LRIC) models are used in various jurisdictions to derive the cost of...

This paper focuses on functional separation. After recounting the circumstances that culminated in the imposition of functional separation within the UK, the paper highlights the difficulties that have been encountered subsequent to the creation of Openreach. Functional separation developments...

The reform of the regulatory framework for electronic communications is in progress. One of its major issue could be an institutional one, as the European Commission announced its intention to reinforce its own power, in particular in order to supervise the remedies imposed by national...

This paper examines the case of telecommunications sector regulation in New Zealand, and does so by providing a constructive illustration of the mutually informing use of systems methodologies and alternative systems representational tools as a means of building understanding of the dilemmas...

This article analyses whether the economics of Next Generation Access Networks for broadband services allow for the market to be competitive in Europe in absence of ex ante regulation of wholesale network access. This is done by two methods: cost modelling of operators with different...