Durch das Scheitern der dritten WTO-Ministerkonferenz in Seattle wurde der Beginn einer neuen Verhandlungsrunde zur Liberalisierung des Welthandelssystems vorerst auf unbestimmte Zeit verschoben. Zum Streit um Inhalt und Umfang der neuen Verhandlungsrunde zwischen der EU und den USA kommt hinzu,...

Is a European spectrum policy a pre-requisite to the single market? Or, conversely, is the single market a pre-requisite to a European spectrum policy? The answer to this question leads to a different choice of regulatory system. Enforcing a European spectrum policy to build a single market...

As recently as five years ago, markets for mobile wireless services in Europe were performing on par with, or even better than, markets in the United States. Today, there is broad agreement that the EU has fallen behind in at least some dimensions, especially with respect to the deployment of...

Unparalleled growth in wireless communications has increased the pressure for more spectrum to support more users, more uses and more capacity. To alleviate that pressure, major regulatory changes were introduced in several countries in two key areas of spectrum management, namely spectrum...

Diffusion of 3G cellular technology varies widely across countries and regions. Past studies have shown that lower levels of diffusion of previous technologies and higher levels of income are significant factors in accelerating the take up of 1st and 2nd generation of mobile telephony. In...

We examine the potential for expansion of the white space spectrum sharing model in the 400MHz band. As opposed to UHF broadcast spectrum, which contains unassigned or idle segments known as white spaces, the 400MHz band is characterised by intensive licence usage. However, productive spectrum...

While Wi-Fi has enjoyed explosive growth and deployment for use in residential homes, the rollout of commercial Wi-Fi service has been more limited. Part of the holdback on large-scale commercial deployment has been the strategic concern that the commons model to spectrum management lacks the...

Over the past decade, several debates on spectrum management regimes in the developed countries have been held. However, the spectrum management regimes of developing countries are relatively understudied, especially east-developed countries. This paper studies current spectrum management reform...

In emerging countries such as India, mobile is becoming the primary and possibly the only device for accessing Internet and other information services. In this article, we identify three variables, namely, (a) wireless broadband connectivity (b) affordable smartphones and (c) localised content...

A wireless heterogeneous network can help increase the access transmission speed and contribute thereby to the broadband deployment policies of administrations and telecommunications operators. Given the technical particularities of wireless heterogeneous networks, the deployment of wireless...