Ubiquitous high-speed fiber-based and mobile broadband availability is a key economic
policy goal in the European Union and other developed countries. Policymakers seek to …

Massive increases in Internet data traffic over the last years have led to rapidly rising
electricity demand and CO 2 emissions, giving rise to environmental externalities and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the 'real'world and substantially impacted the virtual
world and thus the Internet ecosystem. It has caused a significant exogenous shock that …

Network neutrality regulations are intended to preserve the Internet as a non-discriminatory,
public network and an open platform for innovation. Whereas the US reversed its regulations …

The Network Neutrality (NN) debate refers to the battle over the design of a regulatory
framework for preserving the Internet as a public network and open innovation platform …

The deployment of new broadband networks (NBNs) based on fiber-optic transmission
technologies promises high gains in terms of productivity and economic growth. It has …

The emergence and growth of a collection of large and global private networks operated by
big tech companies like Google, Facebook, or Amazon have thoroughly disrupted the …

The concept of general purpose technologies (GPT) has been developed within the
endogenous growth theory based on earlier research by economic historians. The term …

Resource sharing is fundamental to the design of telecommunication networks. The
technology, economic and policy forces shaping the transition to next-generation digital …

The digital transition has transformed the telecommunications industry into a highly dynamic
and tremendously diverse broadband-centric ecosystem. The ecosystem we observe today …