The paper focuses on the links between telecommunication networks and local development, emphasizing on the peculiar case of Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). From tools of network economics, the paper studies the market dynamics of telecommunication networks and the infrastructure diffusion...

[eng] The main purpose of this paper concerns the understanding of the economic mechanisms of interactions which underlie the spatial coexistence of coordination processes. The first part shows the interest to focus on dynamical and decentralized approaches of economic interactions and reviews...