Tuesday March 30th

9.00 - 10.50, Parallel sessions

Next generation infrastructures, part one: uncertainty and funding

Chair: Karl-Heinz Neumann, WIK

Investment incentives with commitment contracts: the role of uncertainty
Claudia Saavedra, Ecole Polytechnique
Discussant: Lorenzo Pupillo, Telecom Italia

Financing the next generation infrastructures. Demand subsidies or infrastructure subsidies?
François Jeanjean, France Telecom Orange
Discussant: Colin Blackman, editor of Info


Old recipes for new challenges? Trends in regulation of mobile communications

Chair: Annaflavia Bianchi, Faber Industria e futuro

The effects of lower Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on Retail Price and Demand
Christian Wernick, Scott Marcus and Christian Growitsch, WIK-Consult
Discussant: Jonathan Sandbach, Vodafone

Does size of network matter for off-net prices and customer attraction? The Swedish mobile phone market
Pratompong Srinuan, Chalmers University
Discussant: Alain Vallee, Telecom ParisTech


11.20 - 13.00, Parallel sessions

Next generation infrastructures, part two: towards evidence based regulation?

Chair: Yves Gassot, IDATE

The ladder of investment theory and the development of new access generation networks: Which empirical evidence?
Germain Gaudin, Maya Bacache and Marc Bourreau, Telecom ParisTech
Discussant: Bruno Soria, Telefonica

Only a few roads lead to Rome: The regulation of entry and broadband performance
José María Castellano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Discussant: Annegret Groebel, BNetzA

Content, networks, intermediaries and regulators: who drives the business models?

Chair: Inmaculada Lopez, CMT

How networks operators, Internet intermediaries and content producers interact?
Edmond Baranes, Montpellier University, Antonin Arlandis and Stéphane Ciriani, Coe-Rexecode
Discussant: Jean Eric de Cockborne, EC, DG Information Society and Media

US and UK Discourses of Net Neutrality: Agenda-setting and Mobilizing Functions.
Alison Powell, Alissa Cooper and Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute
Discussant: Monica Ariño, Senior Manager, European Policy, Ofcom


13.00 - 14.00, Lunch

14.00 - 15.40, Institutions for a future internet

Chair: Aniyan Varghese, EC, DG Information Society and Media

The Institutional Economics of IP Addresses
Milton Mueller, Delft University of Technology
Discussant: Bernard Celli, Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA)

From security vs. privacy to identity: an emerging concept for policy design?
Wainer Lusoli and Ramon Compañó, EC, JRC-IPTS
Discussant: Ian Brown, Oxford Internet Institute



16.10 - 17.50, A user driven European digital agenda: what does it mean in practice?

Chair: Jean Claude Burgelman, EC, DG Research

Taking the Active User Seriously… Policy Implications of User Created Content
Natali Helberger, Institute for Information Law and Silvain de Munck, TNO
Discusant: Kristina Irion, Central European University, Budapest

Communications regulation for user benefit: learning from experience in Australia and the United Kingdom
Claire Milne, Antelope Consulting and Media@LSE, and Gerard Goggin, University of New South Wales
Discussant: Anders Henten, CMI, Aalborg University

 

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