Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ist der Ersatz eines Festnetzanschlusses durch eine Funklösung. Er wird im Kontext des angestrebten Gigabit-Breitbandausbaus in der Fläche, in dünn besiedelten Gebieten, grundsätzlich als eine Alternative zum teuren Glasfaserausbau angesehen, um Endkunden mit...

The inaugural guest academic article for the University of Chicago Business Law Review Blog discusses how Millennial and GenZ investors can set in motion a social movement with disruptive effects on the current corporate governance paradigm. It refers to Millennial and GenZ investors as...

In dieser Studie nehmen wir neben den klassischen Zielen der Frequenzregulierung, wie z. B. der Schaffung wettbewerblicher Marktstrukturen, auch die Aspekte der Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz in den Blick. So hat z. B. die Ausgestaltung von Versorgungsauflagen für Mobilfunknetzbetreiber im...

The wireless industry was among the most competitive industries in US. There were scores of players all across the country that competed on poor margins. The market had reached a level of saturation from whereon it had become difficult for operators to grow further. In the new business scenario,...

Der Trend zur Digitalisierung in der Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und in öffentlichen Institutionen in Deutschland bedingt damit einhergehend einen zunehmenden Bedarf nach leistungsfähigen Funkdiensten für vielfältige digitale Anwendungen von unterschiedlichen Nutzerkreisen. Die daraus...

Compatibility is recognized to be a socially desirable outcome but the welfare implications from a uniform standard are still ambiguous. This paper studies the effect of unifying two incompatible standards for wireless networks in the U.S. wireless telecommunications market from 2015 to 2018. I...

The demand for wireless technology has outpaced the ability for the many disparate spectrum systems to coexist and satisfy increasing performance constraints, warranting the need for more flexible policy frameworks that can be both integrative and innovative. Although radio spectrum is scarce,...

A new generation of cellular technology has been deployed every decade since the 1980s. We are presently amid the global commercial deployment by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) of the fifth generation (5G) of cellular technology; and concurrently, a flurry of research is engaged in designing...