24th European Regional

International Telecommunication Society Conference


Technology, Investment and Uncertainty


Programme


Sunday, 20 October

18.00-21.00

WELCOME RECEPTION

Hotel Astoria Boscolo

Via del Giglio, 9Firenze



Monday, 21 October


08.30-09.00 Registration


09.00-09.30 Opening Session

Erik Bohlin | ITS Chairman

Brigitte Preissl | Conference Co-chair

Pier Luigi Parcu | Conference Co-chair


09.30-10.00 Plenary Session

Chair: Pier Luigi Parcu | Florence School of Regulation, EUI


The impact of regulation on operator strategies and investments

Göran Marby | Director-General, Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS)

and chair-elect for 2014 of BEREC

Lucilla Sioli | Head of Unit F4 Knowledge Base, DG Connect

Steffen Hoernig | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal


11.00-11.30 Coffee break


11.30-12.30 Parallel Session 1

Spectrum 1Allocation

Spectrum auctions: The combinatorial clock auction and its complexities

Knapek & Wambach

Spectrum licensing, policy instruments and market entry

Madden, Bohlin, Tran & Morey

Analysis of different authorization approaches for the shared access to radio spectrum

Castrucci, Carciofi, Guiducci,& Barbiroli

Media

From hybrid TV toward transmedia: Recent marketing advances of the DTV

and new media developments

Hsu & Shih

The role of media and ICT in the post-quake restoration and recovery progress: A case of the Great East Japan earthquake

Mitomo, Otsuka, Jeon & Cheng


European Union 1

Bandwidth requirements in a 2020 perspective

Henten, Falch & Tadayoni

To what extent does network neutrality impact network investment? What are the consequences of this policy and how does it help or hinder reaching the EUs 2020 goals?

Layton

Broadband access in the EU: An assessment of future economic benefits

Gruber, Hätönen & Koutroumpis

Digital services 1

Cloud computing. Old and new legal challenges under an IP perspective

Falce

An exploratory study of consumer attitudes towards mobile ticketing in Sweden

Apanasevic, Markendahl & Arvidsson

Regulation challenges for competition managed services vs. OTT services

Maton

12.30-14.00 Lunch


14.00-15.30
Parallel Session 2

Spectrum 2

Business models and investment options for use of licensed shared access of spectrum

Markendahl, Widaa & Mölleryd

From spectrum management perspective to examine Taiwans switchover policy

Peng


European influence in ITU-R: The end of an era of dominance?

El-Moghazi, Whalley & Irvine


Moving from common and control to flexible use and to a spectrum commons

Prasad & Sridhar


Privacy 1


Do recruiters 'Like' it? Privacy and online social network profile in hiring: A randomized experiment

Manant, Pajak & Soulié


Privacy notice for dummies? Towards European guidelines on how to giveclear and comprehensive informationon the use of cookies in order to protect the internet usersright to online privacy

Luzak


The law and economics of intermediaries of personal information

Luchetta


Local loop unbundling


The influence of local loop unbundling on investment by incumbent telecommunications operators in the OECD member countries

Okamoto & Nakamura


Investment incentives under local deregulation: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Fabritz & Falck

The relation between local loop unbundling and investment in fixed telephony

Pachis & Yannelis


How to price the unbundled local loop in the transition from copper to fibre access networks?

Neumann & Vogelsang


Pricing


Play It Save: Consumer choice under four-part tariffs with cost caps

Köhler & Krämer


Nonlinear pricing; self-selecting tariffs and regulation

Alleman, Baranes & Rappoport


Price collusion in geographically segmented marketsEmpirical evidence and policy implications

Horstmann & Krämer


From mobile voice to quadruple-play: estimation of willingness to pay for ADSL and FTTH

by analyzing consumer choice

Liang


Digital services 2


Research on user resistance to acceptance of IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) System

Kim, Nam & Kim


Digital service platforms in the ICT industryA systematization of strategic archetypes

Kuebel & Zarnekow


The dilemma of electronic books in the mobile age in Taiwan

Tseng


Electronic communication services in the world of applications: Challenges for regulation

Ruhle & Freund


15.30-16.00 Coffee break


16.00-17.30 Parallel Session 3


Panel session 1: European market structures in the long term


Moderator: Paul de Bijl | CBP, The Netherlands

Participants: Johannes Bauer | Michigan State University, USA

Steffen Hoernig | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Scott Marcus | WIK, Germany


Mobile 1


The impact of spectrum licenses on competition. The case of 4G deployment in Spain

Ventura, Frías & Pérez


Technological neutrality and standards harmonization: WiMAX spectrum in Taiwan as a case study

Peng


Opportunities and challenges for TV and mobile broadband in 470-790 MHz

Shi, Sung & Zander


Strategy scenario selection in the competition of mobile ecosystems

Lee & Kim


Broadbandspeed, quality & bandwidth


Impact of sector-specific regulation on ICT infrastructure quality

Bauer, Zenhäusern & Schneider


The effects of asymmetric regulation on the quality of broadband networks

Kocsis


Will broadband pricing support 1Gbps services?

Domingo & Lehr


The impact of broadband speed on the household income

Rohman & Bohlin

Regulation 1


Reconsider the telecommunication and media regulatory framework in Taiwan: Using the new emerged media as examples

Liu


Regulations for and against cooperation in smallcells - how could regulations stimulate co-opetition by supporting sharing

Ghanbari, Markendahl & Widaa


Regulation to promote competition in the bimodal broadband industry

McDonough



Tuesday, 22 October


09.00-10.30 Parallel Session 4


Mobile regulation


Jurisdictional competition and the regulation of wireless service in Canada

Schmidt & Hamilton


New European developments in international mobile roaming: Where are we headed?

Marcus & Philbeck


Regulatory fallacies in global telecommunications: The case of international mobile roaming

Knieps & Zenhäusern


Privacy 2Personal information


The value of personal information in e-commerce transactions: the impact of socio-economic characteristics in the UK

Palacios, Gijón, Gómez-Barroso & Feijóo


The value of personal information in the e-commerce market

Jitsuzumi & Koguchi


Control privacy information explosion with data apotosis eco-system

Shinohara & Kunishi


National experiences


Policymaking for the PSTN-to-IP ransition within federalism: Lessons from U.S. v. Canadian experimentation

Cherry


Overview of the issues relating to the enforcement and review of regulatory decisions in a small Member State such as Malta

Micallef


Russias information and communication technologies and innovative economy infrastructure formation

Petukhova & Strepetova


Online & Innovation


Assessing access problems in online media platforms

Valcke, Wahyuningtyas & Graef


Competition in and for digital markets: The impact of new entrants strategic investments in a dynamic duopoly

Kuchinke & Vidal


Covariance structural analysis of innovation and ICT use among Japanese innovative SMEs

Idota, Bunno & Tsuji


Structure of technology evolution: The way in which ICT industry emerged in Korea

Kim, Jung, Lee & Hwang


Environmental & ethical aspects of ICT


ICT and efficiency of transport infrastructure

Yoon & Na


Toward a capacity efficient, cost efficient and power efficient deployment strategy for indoor mobile broadband

Widaa, Markendahl & Ghanbari

10.30-11.00 Coffee break


11.00-12.30 Parallel Session 5


Spectrum 3


Introduction of dynamic spectrum management technologies: the role of market structure and spectrum policy

Basaure & Sridhar


A new institutional perspective on share spectrum access issues

Bunel & Lescop


Secondary access to the radar spectrum bands: regulatory and business implications

Obregon, Sung & Zander


Using the lower UHF bands for commons & events

Elsner & Weber


The validity of unlicensed spectrum for future local high-capacity services

Kang, Sung & Zander


Next generation access


Geographically differentiated NGA deployment

Tselekounis, Xylogianni, Varoutas & Martakos


Economic aspects of hybrid fiber and copper-based access networks

Rendon Schneir & Xiong


Economic replicability tests for next generation access network

Jaunaux & Lebourges


Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure

Flacher & Jennequin


TrafficTrends & management


On the weal and woe of internet traffic management in Europe

Stocker


Institutions, regulation and governance of the internet; A European perspective on traffic, uses and business practices in the digital economy

Liebenau, Elaluf-Calderwood & Karrberg


Reporting policies of ISPs: do general terms and conditions (GTCs) match with the reality?

Grove, Agic & Sedlmeir


The profitability of internet user tiering: an analysis of consumerswillingness-to-pay for quality of service tiering

Krämer & Wiewiorra


Consumer issues


Residential mobile phone userscomplaints in Spain

Pérez-Amaral, Gijón, Garín-Muñoz & López


Consumer protection in mobile telecommunications across countries: A comparative study

López, Pérez-Amaral, Garín-Muñoz & Gijón


Mixed method research: Combining mobile logdata and questionnaires

Bouwman & de Reuver


Mobile 2


The analysis of mobile network switching determinants and policy implications in a developing country: A case study of Thailand

Keesookpun & Mitomo


Empirical analysis of the current Japanese mobile phone market: Focusing on the diffusion of smartphones

Shinohara, Akematsu, Morikawa & Tsuji


Complementing macrocell deficits with either smallcells or Wi-Fi - willingness to choose based on the cost-capacity analysis

Popescu, Ghanbari & Markendahl


Mobile resource sharing trends in developing and developed mobile markets (regulations and market forces)

Lasso, Widaa & Markendahl

12.30-14.00 Lunch


14.00-15.30 Parallel Session 6


Schools, kids and libraries


Are classroom internet use and academic performance higher after government broadband subsidies to primary schools?

Hyland, Layte, Lyons, McCoya & Sillesc


Public Internet access in areas of deprivation: The case of Glasgow

Anderson & Whalley


Role of the public ICT networks in facilitating innovation: Lessons from India and UK

Jain


Encouraging the development of telecommunication markets


Chirico & Gaal The role of public funding in telecommunications markets


PPP as a policy tool for generating rural access to broadband services

Falch


Broadband regulation efficacy in the presence of nationwide government network subsidies: Evidence from New Zealand

Howell


Sustainable broadband: A monitoring framework for broadband policy in rural areas in the Netherlands

Sadowski & Kirchholtes


Mobile applications


Analyzing the business model for m-payment from banks' perspective: An empirical study

Guo, Nikou & Bouwman


Drivers intention to use smartphone-car connectivity

Park, Kim, Nam & Kim


Who is investing in Machine-to-Machine communications?

Laya, Bratu & Markendahl


Mobile broadband infrastructure and the usage of local online services

Mang


Fixedmobile


Comparing and combining value network configurations for fixed and mobile access networks

Van der Wee, Evenepoel, Verbrugge, Lannoo & Pickavet


Mobile off-load and fixed-mobile competition

Marcus


Analyzing competitive effects between fixed and mobile broadband

Wulf & Brenner


Dynamics of broadband demand: substitution or complementarity between fixed and mobile technologies? An application to the Portuguese case

Silva, Proença & Vareda


15.30-16.00 Coffee break


16.00-17.30 Parallel Session 7


Panel session 2: Machine-to-machine communications


Moderator: Jan Markendahl | KTH, Sweden

Participants: Harry Bouwman | Delft University of Technical, The Netherlands & Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

Roberto Saracco | EIT ICT LABS

Staffan Movin | Marketing Technology Centre

Regulation 2


Reduction in unit prices in the telecommunication industry

Jeanjean


Can optimal mechanisms for policy decisions be designed?

Major


Estimation of monetary value of switching costs and network effects in mobile telecommunications. A stated preference approach

Sobolewski & Czajkowski


Broadband


The impact of regulation and competition on the adoption of fibre-based broadband services: Recent evidence from the European Union Member States

Briglauer


Regulation, investment and efficiency in the transition to next generation networks: Evidence from the European Union

Rajabiun & Middleton


A unified framework for open access to telecommunications infrastructure

Krämer & Schnurr


Cooperation patterns in small cell networks - risks and opportunities to distinguish the win-win model

Ghanbari, Markendahl & Widaa


Internet


Net neutrality at international backbone provider level

Baglioni, Calabrese, Forcina, Levialdi & Lucarini


Measuring the Internet convergence: A comparative study for Thailand and Norway

Hallingby, Hartvikse, Elaluf Calderwood & Sørensen


Governing network neutrality: Public perception and policy capacity

Shin


The evolution of the generalized differentiated services architecture and the changing role of the Internet Engineering Task Force

Knieps


18.00-21.00 Drinks and Conference dinnerVilla Viviani, via Gabriele D'Annunzio 230

Firenze



Wednesday, 23 October


09.00-10.15 Parallel Session 8


European Union 2


Electronic communications regulation in Europe: The past and the future 20 years

Parcu & Silvestri


Single market considerations in the practice of BEREC: study of BEREC opinions in

Article 7/7a cases

Batura


Operators 1


The determinants of European telecommunication operatorssystematic risk

Chalmeau


Does the number of mobile operators really matter for prices? A comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in European mobile telecommunication markets Csorba & Pápai

Standards


The formation of Chinas mobile TV standards /regulations for future sustainable developmentSocio-technical translation process study for the Chinas Mobile TV standard

Chao & Fu-Cheng


A research on ICT standards management based on standards reusability analysis

Lee, Cha, Ha & Park


A comparison of regional standards collaboration activities of ETSI and ASTAP

Cha, Park & Lee

Swedish broadband


What makes people adopt an ultra-high speed (100 Mbit/s) broadband? An empirical study of the Swedish broadband market

Kongaut & Bohlin


How liberalised is the optical fibre broadband market? The case of Sweden

Sandgren & Mölleryd


10.14-10.45 Coffee break


10.45-12.00 Parallel Session 9


Investment


An economic cost model for network deployment and spectrum in wireless networks

Han, Sung & Zander


Investment strategies for different actors in the indoor mobile market in view of the emerging spectrum authorization schemes

Widaa, Markendahl & Ghanbari


Operators 2


Corporate governance, investment strategies, and reactions to unbundling regulation of broadband operators: Empirical analysis on Japan, Europe and the U.S.

Mitsuyama & Mitomo


The role of network sharing and M&A in improving operatorsprofitability and moving towards a new industry structure

Mölleryd & Markendahl


From global aspirations to regional dominance: the changing international focus of Deutsche

Telekom

Whalley & Curwen


Content


VOD (video on demand): a business perspective

Collico Savio


The digitisation of media and content industries: what happened to EU public content?

Feijoo, Lindmark, Passel & Tarín


Ecosystems and complex systems


Managing the new normal: how we will learn to love uncertainty

Longstaff


The interaction of ICT networks structure and downstream trade flows: Bhutan and India

Giovannetti & Fennell


12.00-12.30 Summaries Closing Session


Closing Summaries


Closing Remarks


Brigitte Preissl | International Telecommunications Society


Jason Whalley | Conference Organiser