trends in EU law in the last ten to fifteen years, as regards the regulation of network industries and of services of general … (iii) between regulation and competition law. At the same time, the separation between the regulatory authority and the …

heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the … regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …

The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers … parts of the industry should be subject to regulation, and (iii) the recent cases in the telecommunications and postal …

grandfathering rights, ex ante regulation of network-specific market power instead of negotiated unregulated network access …, incentive regulation instead of cost-based regulation. The process towards sector-symmetric market power regulation based on …