Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) in Europe : Failure of Public Policy, Both at European Union and Member States Levels?

Laurent Guihéry (1)

1 LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports

Various aspects of modern crisis are considered and attempts to estimate development expediency of the second and third mobile Internet generations of the European telecommunication market are undertaken. In details there are investigated problems of the Third Generation of Mobile Internet (UMTS) network management, in particular of medium-term Internet strategies, reasons of the European telecommunication crisis, features of the UMTS network investment, influences on other industrial branches, and characteristics of standards' selection and license cost.

Mots clés: Crisis; debt; financial markets; high technology; infrastructure; investments; licenses; management; mobile connection operators; mobile Internet; network; new standard; services

Domaines: Economies et finances

Laurent Guihéry. Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) in Europe : Failure of Public Policy, Both at European Union and Member States Levels?. Journal of European Economy, 2003, 2 (2), pp. 258-275. ⟨halshs-00076596⟩