NGA development continues to be constrained by the very high financial burden yet to be overcome. Competitive network rollout is not likely to happen outside of very densely populated areas for a foreseeable future. Regulators must strike the right balance between procompetition measures and...

Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...

Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...

Data and its economic impact permeates all sectors of the economy. The data economy is not a new sector, but more like a challenge for all firms to compete and innovate as part of a new wave of economic value creation.With data playing an increasingly important role across all sectors of the...

EnTEC ToR - Competitiveness of System integration elements Since 2020, as per the Energy Union Governance Regulation, the EC publishes an annual Competitiveness Progress Report (CPR) to assess whether clean energy technology development is on track to deliver the EU's longterm energy and climate...

In this paper we consider and evaluate NGA architectures which meet the foreseeable future bandwidth demand and allow for highest bandwidth and quality for end-users and which no longer rely on copper cable elements. These are FTTH architectures only. From all available FTTH architectures we...

Derzeit wird weltweit die fünfte Mobilfunkgeneration (5G) von den Mobilfunknetzbetreibern eingeführt. Parallel dazu haben die Arbeiten an der sechsten Mobilfunkgeneration (6G) begonnen. Beide Mobilfunkgenerationen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie Entwicklungen wie Software Designed Networks...

We propose a novel approach to the evaluation of new network technologies that combines an engineering cost model with a differentiated multi-player oligopoly model subject to wholesale access regulation. It is based on Hoernig et al. (2010), 1 which examines the cost differentials and...