This article describes the three main objectives of the European Community's programme of regulatory reform in the telecommunication sector: liberalization, the separation of regulatory and operational functions, and the realization of scale economies. Particular attention is paid to the new...

Unter diesem Titel hat das ifo Institut in diesem Frühjahr eine Studie veröffentlicht, die zehn Jahre nach der Einführung der sektorspezifischen Regulierung und beträchtlichen Markterfolgen in der Telekommunikation prüfte, ob das ursprüngliche Ziel einer vorübergehenden Regulierung aus...

Regulatory reforms in European network industries are strongly influenced by legal decisions. The cases considered in this paper not only initiated the liberali-zation process of the markets for network services but also provided an impor-tant signaling function for the remaining regulatory...

In this paper, historical functionalities of the traditional Internet are contrasted with today's Internet functionalities of the "smart" Internet architecture. It is shown that network neutrality regulation prohibiting congestion management and traffic quality differentiation is contrary to...

In this paper the design and implementation of a disaggregated regulatory contract onthe statutory level (EU Directives and national law) is derived, which should be an essential principle in the EU Review 2006. Its basic components consist of limiting regulation to monopolistic bottlenecks,...