Making information and telecommunications available is a permanent challenge for cities
concerned to their social, urban and local planning and development, focused on life quality …

Recognizing that high-speed broadband connectivity emerges as a key element for growth,
city authorities engage in fiber access deployments to empower their local communities in …

Energy companies and other utility providers have been often involved in the provision of
telecommunications services. Nevertheless, their contribution to broadband development …

Infrastructure investments expansion typically adds to the productive capacity in an
economy, and thus to its economic growth. Network industries account for between one …

Across Europe, policymakers and market forces are striving to deploy next generation
access (NGA) networks and ensure ubiquitous access to superfast broadband services. Due …

This paper analyses the WiFi4EU initiative, the measure proposed by the European
Commission (EC) to speed up public access to Wi-Fi throughout Europe in the coming years …

Purpose–This paper seeks to examine the investment dimensions of next generation
networks from a universal service perspective in a European context. The question is how …

The paper discusses appropriate policy measures for achieving universal access to
broadband services in Europe. Access can be delivered by means of many different …

This paper is concerned with the drivers of service development on future
telecommunication networks. As these networks are being transformed into next-generation …

The emergence of IP multimedia services represents another step towards convergence and
implies a series of new challenges for market players and for regulatory bodies. Specifically …