Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it...

Abstract: Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwiefern der Ausbau neuer Netze der nächsten Generation (sogenannte Next Generation Access Networks, NGA) angemessen regulatorisch, legislativ und ordnungspolitisch begleitet werden kann. Hierzu werden insbesondere sehr grundlegende...

General introduction -- General introduction -- Public engagement for infrastructure provision: Case studies on successful FTTH roll-out strategies -- Relevance of broadband -- The qualification of broadband access technologies -- The mechanisms of infrastructure enforcement -- The effectiveness...