10 years of liberalised telecom markets in Germany: Assessing the degree of competition on the markets for voice telephony
- Market data for the German telecom market shows that Deutsche Telekom as the former incumbent is constantly loosing shares on all arkets for voice telephony: the market for local calls, the market for long-distance calls and the market for international calls. At the same time prices decline steadily with the latest trend being that operators offer voice services free of charge, the costs of which are covered by a monthly subscription charge. Against this background the paper examines the state of policy and regulatory reform in the telecommunications sector in Germany almost 10 years after the liberalisation of the fixed telecommunications market. Thereby the focus is on the analysis of the competitive conditions that have been established on the German market for voice telephony services. If these retail markets are competitive, there might be a need to remove remaining regulatory provisions. In the new environment of converging markets the future challenge of regulating fixed telecom markets might be to ensure that access to the network and/or services of a potentially dominant provider in a relevant market will satisfy requirements for openness and non-discrimination.
| Author: | Markus Fredebeul-Krein |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21269/192 |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Fachhochschule Aachen |
| Date of the Publication (Server): | 2007/10/17 |
| Tag: | Telekommunikationsmarkt |
| GND Keyword: | Telekommunikationsmarkt |
| Note: | paper presented at 18th European Regional ITS Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, September 2-4, 2007 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 38 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr / 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr |
