In France the government, the content sector and ISPs reached an agreement on an initiative to curb online copyright infringement on the Net in the so-called Olivennes Memorandum of Understanding of 23 November 2007. According to the MoU Internet users infringing on copyright laws receive two...

Various public and private stakeholders are creating, supporting and using environments for joint testing and experimenting of broadband innovations. This paper proposes a conceptual framework of test and experimentation platforms (TEPs), that differentiates six types of TEPs, based on a.o....

This paper investigates the main trends and uncertainties that will define Fourth Generation Mobile Systems and Services (4G) in Europe. It outlines two divergent visions on 4G: the so-called 'immediate' 4G vision, consisting of Wireless LANs (WLANs) combined with other wireless access...

This paper argues that the structure of the mobile communications industry is being decisively affected by 'platformisation', yet in a present context of strong 'platform ambiguity'. It introduces the concept of gatekeeper roles to compare current mobile platform initiatives, and proposes a...