info: Volume 5 Issue 1

Should broadband be part of universal service obligations?

There is growing concern that some groups without access to high‐speed broadband networks, e.g. those residing in rural and remote areas, will be unable to benefit from online…

Designing next generation telecom regulation: ICT convergence or multi‐sector utility?

This article critically examines the multiple rationales for telecom, IT, media convergence regulation, on the one hand, and multisector utility regulation, on the other, and the…

Accommodative competitive entry policies and telecommunications regulation

Accommodative competitive entry policies (unbundling, resale and interconnection) yield contestable retail telecommunications markets. The combination of setting efficient prices…

Development of the telecommunications market in Germany since liberalisation

When the German telecommunications market was opened up entirely to competition it was mainly characterized by a monopoly in the fixed‐link segment and a duopoly in the cellular…

Transparency on the Net: functions and deficiencies of Internet search engines

Search engines exist to help sort through all the information available on the Internet, but have thus fair failed to shoulder any responsibility for the content which appears on…

The Future of Mobile Communications: Awaiting the Third Generation

E‐Commerce and Development Report 2001

Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet World‐Wide

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

CLEC: An Insider’s Look at the Rise and Fall of Competition in the Local Exchange Competition

Achieving the digital manifest destiny

The tail wagging the dog

For whom the Bells toll