In summer 2005, the German telecommunication incumbent Deutsche Telekom announced its plans to build a new broadband fibre optics network. Deutsche Telekom decided as precondition for this new network not to be regulated with respect to pricing and third party access. To develop a regulator's...

Institut für Halle Institute for Economic Research Wirtschaftsforschung Halle IWH-Diskussionspapiere IWH-Discussion Papers Network investment and the threat of regulation – preventing monopoly exploitation or infrastructure construction? Ulrich...

This paper is motivated by the European Union strategy to secure competitiveness for Europe in the globalising world by focussing on technological supremacy (the Lisbon - agenda). Parallel to that, the EU Commission is trying to take a more economic approach to competition policy in general and...