Efficient competition on European rail transport markets is conditional upon the existence of non-discriminatory access to infrastructure for all active and potential transport service providers. In addition, however, efforts must also be made to ensure scarce infrastructure capacities are...

This paper aims at localizing network-specific market power in new markets. Three kinds of transmission qualities on service markets can be differentiated according to the products provided: narrowband services like PSTN/ISDN or GSM, semi high-speed broadband services like broadband internet...

Die Universaldienstregulierung im Telekommunikationssektor ist ein Beispiel für die Sicherung einer Dienstleistung von allgemeinem Interesse im umfassend für Wettbewerb geöffneten Sektor. Seit der Marktöffnung hat sich der Regulie-rungsprozess grundsätzlich geändert. Mit Hilfe eines...

The European Commission Recommendation 2007/879/EC has become known as an important innovation towards phasing-out sector-specific regulation of electronic communications. Eleven of the eighteen markets are no longer regarded as needing to be subject to sector-specific ex ante regulation....

Regulatory reforms in European network industries are strongly influenced by legal decisions. The cases considered in this paper not only initiated the liberalization process of the markets for network services but also provided an important signaling function for the remaining regulatory...