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...

In this contribution we argue the importance of an ubiquitous high speed broadband infrastructure in Europe based on an analysis of subsequent technological revolutions, each characterized by a specific core infrastructure which enables the broad deployment of innovations, which in turn leads to...

In many cases, an economic perspective on cybersecurity – and malware in particular – provides us with more powerful analysis and a fruitful starting point for new governmental policies: incentive structures and market externalities. This report sets out to develop this perspective, building...

Background: In 2008 a study was commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands to investigate the potential impact of private equity leverage buy-out in the telecommunication sector on the public values that the government wished to safeguard. The study provided an extensive...

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...

Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and water. This study highlights and illustrates...