In this paper we compare the privatisation and deregulation experience of German railroads with the telecommunications … sector. In section 2 the period of nationalisation, legal entry barriers and self-regulation for the German railroad and the … telecommunications sector is characterized. Section 3 is devoted to the privatisation and entry deregulation during the German …

This chapter is organized as follows: In section 2 the historical roots of third par-ty access regulation are …-work, based on modern network economics, for the evaluation of third party ac-cess policies is provided. In section 4, the gradual … process of market opening for railway transport services and the evolution of third party access regulation in Europe are …