26th European Regional ITS Conference, Madrid 2015

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26th European Regional ITS Conference
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 24th – 27th June 2015

"What next for European telecommunications?"

The conference aims to address issues that are highly relevant to Europe’s dynamic telecommunications market. One debate that has emerged within the European Union (EU) focuses on the structure and regulation of its telecommunications sector. The fragmented nature of the market, with 28 national markets and regulators, is preventing the emergence of the sort of telecommunications industry that the EU needs if it is to prosper in today’s global information based economy.
Operators lack the scale economies necessary to fund their investments in infrastructure or to develop new services and products. The national nature of markets complicates the regulatory process, and prevents the emergence of EU wide operators. But what should happen next? Should, for instance, the EU encourage through whatever measures necessary a single market in telecommunications? In such a single market, a new institution will have to be empowered to take over the role of national regulatory authorities at the European level. Consolidation, primarily in mobile but perhaps also in fixed, could result in larger operators able to fund the necessary investment. Though as operators consolidate, the long-standing mantra of the more operators the better, would be cast aside, requiring the emergence of a new form of regulatory intervention in telecommunication markets.
It is also unclear whether the creation of a single market would result in increased investment by operators. Arguably, there could be less infrastructure investment, at least in the short term, as operators acquire one another across Europe. This would delay the infrastructure investment sought, prolonging the digital divides that exist across the EU. Nor, for that matter, is it clear how the creation of a single market would encourage innovation in new services and products. Across the EU many national online markets are dominated by European versions of American websites, while a range of foreign manufacturers now dominate the handset market. And not only are OTT providers like Netflix having a disruptive impact on European content markets, but they are also highlighting the value of content over infrastructure that places further challenges on Europe’s telecommunications operators.

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2015The drivers of the substitution of individual services for bundled services: The case of SpainUrueña López, Alberto; Gijón, Covadonga; Castro García-Muñoz, Raquel; Ureña Fernández, Olga; Feijóo, Claudio
2015Ultra-Broadband For All In Europe: Can Access Regulation Hinder Innovation And Welfare Maximisation?Amendola, Giovanni Battista
2015Identifying Telecommunication strategies and investment Opportunities in Latin American Countries Based on Clustering AnalysisPeñas-de Pablo, José Miguel; Portilla-Figueras, José Antonio; Navío-Marco, Julio; Salcedo-Sanz, Sancho
2015Evidence For A Ladder Of Investment In Central And Eastern European CountriesHunt, Matt; Serdarević, Goran; Ovington, Tom; Kenny, Clive
2015The price of broadband quality: tracking the changing valuation of service characteristicsCoynea, Bryan; Lyonsa, Sean
2015Can Internet news media firms make good deals with Internet portals by making coalitions?Lee, Seungjoo; Kwon, Youngsun
2015Internet of Things: redefinition of Business Models for the next generation of Telecom servicesGhanbari, Amirhossein; Álvarez, Óscar; Markendahl, Jan
2015Complement and Network Externalisties in the Mobile Devices IndustryGyu, Lim Yeon; Taek, Kim Sang
2015An assessment of innovation profiles of telecom operators: a longitudinal comparison between BT and Orange from 2004 to 2013Vialle, Pierre; Beltran, Samuel; Whalley, Jason
2015The supply of personal information: A study on the determinants of information provision in e-commerce scenariosPotoglou, Dimitris; Palacios, Juan; Feijoo, Claudio; Gómez Barroso, Jose-Luis
2015Risk behaviour, fraud and e-trust of individual consumers in SpainMartínez de Ibarreta, Carlos; Gijón, Covadonga
2015Assessment of spectrum value: application to sub-1GHz frequency bandsGonzález-Valderrama, Carlos; Frías, Zoraida; Martínez, Jorge Pérez
2015The Economic Value of Personal Information and Policy ImplicationKim, Jiin; Nam, Changi; Kim, Seongcheol
2015The Factors of Technology, Organization and Environment Influencing the Adoption and Usage of Big Data in Korean FirmsPark, Jong-Hyun; Kim, Moon-Koo; Paik, Jong-Hyun
2015A multiple indicator model for panel data: an application to ICT area-level variationVentura, Eva; Satorra, Albert
2015Evaluation of the impact of net neutrality on the profitability of telecom operators: A game-theoretic approachVan der Wee, Marlies; Vandevelde, Niels; Verbrugge, Sofie; Pickavet, Mario
2015Motivation, Regulation And Actor Constellations - Experiences From A Multidisciplinary Research Project On Health And Wellbeing As Part Of The Internet Of ThingsLaya, Andrés; Sundquist, Mårten; Markendahl, Jan
2015The impact of network competition in the mobile industryHoupis, George; Rodriguez, Jose Maria; Ovington, Thomas; Serdarevic, Goran
2015Identifying harm to the best efforts InternetMarcus, J. Scott; Waldburger, Martin
2015Mobile data offloading: an agent-based modelling study on the effectiveness of Wi-Fi offloadingBreukers, Yorick; de Reuver, Mark; Oey, Michel; Bouwman, Harry
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