Due to its dynamic nature, and the increasing importance of competitive subparts, the telecommunications sector provides particularly interesting insights for studying regulatory unbundling. Based on the theory of monopolistic bottlenecks the fallacies of overregulation by undue unbundling...

In this paper, historical functionalities of the traditional Internet are contrasted with today's Internet functionalities of the "smart" Internet architecture. It is shown that network neutrality regulation prohibiting congestion management and traffic quality differentiation is contrary to...

In this paper the design and implementation of a disaggregated regulatory contract onthe statutory level (EU Directives and national law) is derived, which should be an essential principle in the EU Review 2006. Its basic components consist of limiting regulation to monopolistic bottlenecks,...