info: Volume 15 Issue 2

The telecom reform process in Europe and the upcoming challenges: overview of the issues and papers in this special edition

Anders Henten

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief introduction to the telecommunication reform process in Europe, its status, and upcoming policy issues. Furthermore, it also aims…

Back to the roots: the 1987 telecom green paper 25 years after – has European telecom liberalization fulfilled its promise for Europe in the internet age?

Herbert Ungerer

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that telecommunications liberalization in Europe has taken the European telecommunications and internet sectors a breathtaking leap…

Moving beyond liberalization: stumbling toward a new European ICT policy framework

William H. Melody

This paper intends to promote a re‐consideration of the most appropriate policy framework for implementing the European Union (EU) digital agenda.

EU regulation and the development of mobile and broadband services

Richard A. Cawley

This paper aims to examine the recent performance of European Union (EU) telecommunications policy in the context of the policy aims set out in the original green paper of 1987…

The enterprise and the digital single market: business telecommunications

Ewan Sutherland

The market for enterprise telecommunications has benefitted greatly from liberalisation over the last quarter century. This paper seeks to review the evolving engagement of…

Telecommunications reform and the internal market in Europe

Wolter Lemstra, Nicolai van Gorp

This paper seeks to make an assessment of the progress towards a fully fledged internal market for e‐communications in the European Union. The assessment is placed in the context…

Liberating Europe's radio spectrum through shared access

Colin Blackman, Simon Forge, Robert Horvitz

The European telecommunications landscape has been transformed over the past 25 years, but spectrum management has remained largely unchanged. The paper seeks to highlight the…