1. Substitut-OTT-Dienste, d.h. solche Dienste, die funktional mit klassischen elektronischen Kommunikationsdiensten vergleichbar sind, müssen aus Gründen der Wettbewerbsgleichheit und der Technologieneutralität vergleichbaren regulatorischen Regelungen unterliegen wie klassische elektronische...

Die Schweiz verfügt über ein breites Unternehmensportfolio unter staatlicher Kontrolle. Die finanziellen Risiken dieser Unternehmen, die sich immer öfter auf wettbewerblichen und globalen Märkten behaupten müssen, tragen die Steuerzahler. Avenir Suisse will mit der Studie die notwendige...

The Japanese broadband market was very competitive until recently owing to the interconnection rules and the significant market power (SMP) regulations on the incumbent fixed telecom giant, NTT East/West. Japan's regulator, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), could let the...

In my thesis, I study three important issues in industrial organization. Chapter 1 studies the impact of vertical integration on innovation in an industry where firms need to undertake risky R&D investments at both production and distribution stages. Vertical integration brings better...

During the last years, a surge in values related to the New Economy has occurred. This phenomenon is similar to the 2000 Dotcom bubble, even if in those years the value growth was fuelled by other firms and entrepreneurs. What both "bubbles" have in common is that, in both cases, they are based...

Economic incentives for security investment in elements of the Internet is of increasing concern. This paper contains an exploration of the incentives for Internet service providers (ISP)s to invest in security. The analysis focuses on the spillover effects of ISP security investments to other...

The contribution of this paper is manifold. First, it provides a cooperation taxonomy for partnerships between telecommunication operators and Over-The-Top service providers. Second, it explores the impact of cooperative service provisioning on the telecommunication operator's business model. As...

We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not know the traffic cost when deciding on consumption, a content provider knows his cost but may not control the consumption. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers'...

Introduction -- Broadband policy -- Broadband infrastructure -- Broadband data -- The spatial distribution of broadband provision -- The broadband-business nexus -- Digital innovation and entrepreneurship -- The future of broadband

Foreword -- Preface -- Inspiration, inventors and innovation -- Sleeping with the enemy -- A new team to deliver -- An audacious plan -- A step change in performance -- Building a new brand for Britain -- Announcing EE -- The challenge of momentum -- Supercharging sales -- The £12.5 billion...