This article offers an unsponsored examination of current disputes whether national regulatory authorities ("NRAs") should permit broadband carriers and content providers, such as Facebook, to subsidize broadband access to a limited, "walled garden" of content. The subsidy makes it possible for...

This paper will provide a straightforward explanation of what constitutes network neutrality and why a debate has arisen about whether governments need to establish rules mandating nondiscrimination. The paper will identify what types of price and quality of service discrimination represent...

The exponential growth in demand of mobile Internet urges mobile network operators (MNOs) to increase the supply of wireless network capacity at a high pace. From this perspective, operators should not only obtain further network capacity but also make a more efficient use of the existing...

Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...

The emergence of smart TV device encourages the reconsideration of the customer’s subscription on the pay TV so that the phenomenon of cord-cutting evokes the other dimension of MVPD (Multi-Channel Video Programming Distribution) industry itself. Two major paths to adopt the new platform in...