This paper summarises the major results from European projects drawing the final conclusions and recommendations from the techno-economic evaluation of three telecommunications market studies. The paper presents an analysis addressing a wide range of crucial telecommunications questions debated...

We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...