This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history … telecommunications with Internet and broadcasting services. The criteria used by the regulatory authorities to identify those network … with respect to some broadband access markets while in Europe, a severe tendency to overregulation is observed. …

economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … competencies for the regulation of the European network industries. …