Nach der deutschen Vereinigung waren die gravierenden infrastrukturellen Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Landeshälften das größte Hemmnis für eine schnelle Angleichung der Lebensbedingungen und der wirtschaftlichen Strukturen zwischen Ost und West. Dies galt auch für die Telekommunikation....

This paper empirically assesses the impact of the intensity of competition on investment in new technologies within the mobile telecommunications industry. Using firm level panel data and an instrumental variable estimation it finds an inverted-U relationship between competition intensity and...

A key question for European regulation going forward is the degree to which a third physical broadband access medium might substitute for broadband offered over traditional telecommunications and cable. Only if a third effective facilities-based competitor were to emerge would it appear to be...