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...

"Our digital world is increasingly mobile. All mobile communication rests upon access to one invisible, essential element: the radio spectrum. In Frequencies, Gregory Taylor and Catherine Middleton bring together diverse national perspectives to explore the current and future state of spectrum...

Schon vor der Jahrhundertwende wurde das Telefon in der Wirtschaft und Verwaltung Deutschlands landesweit genutzt. Aber erst im 20. Jahrhundert kam mit der Automatisierung des Telefonsystems nach dem 2. Weltkrieg der Durchbruch zu einem gesellschaftsweiten, flächendeckenden...

The paper addresses the determinants of diffusion of broadband infrastructure by looking a the US Federal States. It tries to identify in particular to what extent intra- and inter-platform competition contribute to accelerating the speed of diffusion. Panel data analysis results indicate that...