It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. In this paper a bottom-up cost modelling approach is applied to determine the investment and cost of...

We propose a novel approach to the evaluation of new network technologies that combines an engineering cost model with a differentiated multi-player oligopoly model subject to wholesale access regulation. It is based on Hoernig et al. (2010), 1 which examines the cost differentials and...

VDSL Vectoring is a transmission technology over copper access line pairs enabling the transmission of higher bandwidth to the end customers, but harms the infrastructure based competition using physical unbundled copper lines. Thus regulators have to decide between infrastructure based...

Dieser Diskussionsbeitrag ist Teil der Forschungsaktivitäten des WIK zum Thema "Übergang von Kupfer- auf Glasfasernetze in Deutschland". Mit diesen Forschungsaktivitäten unterstützt das WIK die Arbeiten und Erörterungen des Gigabitforums der Bundesnetzagentur. Die Migration der Kunden auf...