Where are we going? Technologies, markets and long-range public policy issues in European communications

We examine technological changes likely to be seen in electronic communications markets (wire-based and wireless) in Europe over the next ten years, and their potential effects on competition. We find these prospective changes to be broadly positive. Public policy and regulation can promote this positive outcome by the pursuit of a strategy of regulatory disengagement. Possible institutional reforms to achieve this goal are considered. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.