In order to analyze the remaining role for sector-specific regulation the focus of this paper is on those elements of … the Internet periphery and Internet service provision, which are strongly based on telecommunications, in particular … Internet access and Internet backbone. Section 2 deals with the role of telecommunications for the Internet, differentiating …

In the EU telecommunications regulatory framework a strong intention to avoid overregulation with respect to new … markets can be observed. However, a clear-cut economically based analysis of the remaining need for sector-specific regu-lation …