being made. In this Article, we examine the economic principles that should govern competition and regulatory policies … Canadian cable television industry should be protected from competition while it upgrades its network to provide interactive …

internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband … internet should be subsidized. Using an approach similar to Valletti et al. (2002), the paper highlights the importance of … population density for whether firms invest to provide internet access. The analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and …

regulation in EU countries like Germany, with its focus on cost-oriented access and service-based competition, is likely to have … Technik erfordert allerdings relativ hohe Investitionen. Die EU und mit ihr auch Deutschland sowie die Schweiz verfolgen …The transition from copper-based internet access to ultra-fast broadband networks requires large investments. However …

effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use …

Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not … second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely … and two percent, pure fiber-optic connections only play a minor role. In international comparison, Germany’s need to get …

heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …

and offer Internet services directly to customers. Employing a very detailed dataset covering the whole of the UK, we find … products upwards compared to the incumbent. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of technology … (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive impact on …

Cheap, ubiquitous high-speed Internet access promises to accelerate economic growth, create new jobs and industries … their citizens. They hope to deploy wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) mesh networks to cast high-speed Internet signals across … has access to free wireless Internet service. Philadelphia is planning to provide Wi-Fi broadband access for a mere $20 a …