This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...

Last December, the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications (adopted in 2002) was amended and reformed by two new directives and one new regulation 2. In Parliament, 510 out of 574 members voted in favour. In the Council, all Member States except Netherlands (abstention) voted in...

The liberalized telecom sector is pervasively confronted with two challenges, conflicts between the market mechanism and sector-specific regulation on the one hand and conflicts between sector-specific regulation and competition law on the other hand. While the former has been taken care by the...