Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly recognized that the rise of all of these different types of content (static and dynamic, and increasingly...

The FCC has been running the Measuring Broadband America program since 2011. They have released six well-received yearly reports so far, analyzing the data collected from wired broadband providers. In 2012, the FCC announced an analogous Measuring Mobile Broadband Performance effort and they...

Mobile broadband networks constitute essential infrastructure to enable a wide range of innovative services and use cases anticipated for our digital economy future. Measuring performance is essential in many ways. First, to allow service providers to manage and develop their networks. Second,...

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has recently proposed a framework to assess the reasonableness of traffic management (TM) practices. This paper discusses BEREC's proposal from a network economic perspective focusing on the underlying concepts of congestion,...

In this paper, we demonstrate that there is more to consumer experience than just broadband access speed. We identify and describe a complex and dynamic set of interactions that occur between different factors that collectively determine consumer experience. We suggest that the relationship...

Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe recent efforts have produced a proposal by the European Commission that envisages the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation based on a regulatory market split between the markets...

The European Commission has recently sought to substantially revise how it regulates the telecommunication industry, with a key goal being to incentivise investment in high-speed broadband networks. Ambitious goals have been set regarding the availability and quality of broadband across the...

Bereits im Jahre 2002 prägte der US-amerikanische Rechtswissenschaftler Tim Wu den Begriff der Netzneutralität und legte dabei den Grundstein für das Narrativ; dass explizite Verhaltensregeln für Anbieter von breitbandigen Internetzugangsdiensten (Internet Service Provider) unerlässlich...

In der gegenwärtigen COVID-19 Krise wurde die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Rolle von modernen und leistungsfähigen Internetinfrastrukturen und darauf basierenden Diensten besonders deutlich. So haben eine Reihe von Diensten, etwa im Bereich der Ausbildung ("e-learning" und...