The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves the implementation of this plan to the individual Member States. Because of large economic, cultural and political differences, the roads to realizing these ambitious goals are...

The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves the implementation of this plan to the individual Member States. Because of large economic, cultural and political differences, the roads to realizing these ambitious goals are...

This document captures and extends the learnings from the research-annex-book project on the dynamics of broadband markets in Europe. This research project is undertaken as part of the visiting research fellowship at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals – Catedra Telefonica

In a 2008 Discussion Paper Prof. Noam asserts that the new generation of fiber-based access networks, which he denotes as Telecom 3.0, requires significant upgrades. When the current economic context is taken into account, the financial crisis and international competitiveness, he infers that...

This paper proposes to use an actor-centric approach to deal with the alignment between technology and the radio spectrum regulatory environment to facilitate the successful introduction of Cognitive Radio. The value of this approach is demonstrated through a review of historical cases of...

Context and aim The performance of the telecommunications industry – including the Internet – has become pivotal as economic and social activity is increasingly electronically mediated and transacted on-line. Having the appropriate instruments to measure the performance of the...