Regulating European telecommunications markets: Unbundled access to the local loop outside urban areas

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 10-11, 2001, Pages 729-741

  Gabelmann, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fixed line communications; Local loop unbundling; Network access

Indexed keywords

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

FIXED LINE COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK ACCESS;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

EID: 0035482225     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(01)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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