TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemstra,W.
AU  - Melody,William H.
TI  - The Dynamics of broadband markets in Europe: realizing the 2020 digital agenda 
SN  - 9781139683555 (ebook)
AV  - HE8084 .D96 2015
U1  - 384/.041094 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Telecommunication
KW  - Europe
KW  - Digital communications
KW  - Broadband communication systems
KW  - Telecommunication policy
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Government policy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction -- 2 Research context and perspective -- Part 1 European union context -- 3. The influence of European Union policies and regulation -- Part 2 Case studies -- 4. The Netherlands -- 5. Belgium: Flanders -- 6. Denmark -- 7. Sweden -- 8. Germany -- 9. United Kingdom -- 10. Italy -- 11. France -- 12. Spain -- 13. Greece -- 14. Poland -- 15. Latvia -- Part 3 Analysis -- 16. Cross-case analysis -- Part 4 Appendices -- Appendix 1 Glossary -- Appendix 2 Quantitative analysis of broadband performance
N2  - The European Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe sets the targets for broadband development by 2020, yet current broadband market outcomes vary widely amongst the EU Member States and the objectives seem challenging for many. In this book, a group of in-country experts follows a framework of qualitative and quantitative analysis to capture patterns, commonalities and differences between twelve different European countries, in terms of infrastructure endowments, institutional arrangements, time of joining the EU, behavior of market actors, personal interventions of regulators, the role of municipalities, and the role perception of governments. By exploring how the past explains present broadband market outcomes, these longitudinal country case studies look to how improvements can be made for the future. As the first in-depth study of broadband developments in Europe, this book will be invaluable to policy-makers, regulators, academic researchers, advisors, and consultants working in the fields of telecommunications, broadband development, technology and innovation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139683555
ER  -