Quality of life challenges, presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, emphasized the importance in achieving progress in making access to voice and broadband data services widespread and affordable. The virus forced nearly everyone to shelter in place, and to rely on wired and wireless technologies...

With growing reliance on information services, cybersecurity has become a pressing issue. Providing and maintaining a desirable level of information security is complicated by the global nature of the problem and the interdependence between the diversity and heterogeneity of players. Security...

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

This paper understands the evolution of Internet governance as occurring in three phases: (1) the early phase of a largely open Internet and minimal government regulation; (2) growing concern about online harms and other adverse consequences of the platformisation of the Internet; and (3) the...

In this paper, we examine welfare implications of switching from a neutrality regime to a network management regime. While in the former a network provider or an integrated ISP should transmit data with a-bit-is-a-bit principle, in the latter it is allowed to differentiate its connection quality...

For many years, electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry were very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades from 1990 to 2010. In these...

Netzneutralität Soll die Neutralität des Internet staatlich reguliert werden?

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie sind die institutionelle und quantitative Entwicklung von Internet und E-Commerce in China sowie die Analyse resultierender ökonomischer Effekte und ihrer Transformationsriemen. In methodischer Hinsicht basieren die Analysen auf drei komplementären Ansätzen....

The market for the exchange of traffic among networks on the Internet has proved to be remarkably efficient and adaptable.While the issue of network neutrality has dominated policy debates in recent years, the evolution of this market has begun to provide answers to many of the questions raised...

Schnellen Breitbandzugängen für möglichst viele Haushalte wird eine große Bedeutung zugemessen. Die dafür notwendige Technik erfordert allerdings relativ hohe Investitionen. Die EU und mit ihr auch Deutschland sowie die Schweiz verfolgen unterschiedliche Regulierungsregime, wobei die...