Competitive Mobile Access in Europe: Comparing Market and Policy Perspectives

The mobile sector is currently experiencing rapid changes in networking as well as computing technologies. These changes are leading to increases in the bandwidths of mobile channels and location-based technology, as well as advances in application languages and digital photography. In turn, the variety of information and entertainment services available via mobile handsets should also expand. Entrepreneurs from the content and entertainment sector are consequently now looking to mobile telephony as a new outlet to sell their services and intermediaries, who will help them do this, are likely to emerge. This could encourage more service providers to enter the market, resulting in greater demands for access to mobile networks, which may or may not be met.

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