UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (UMTS) IN EUROPE: FAILURE OF PUBLIC POLICY, BOTH AT THE EUROPEAN UNION AND MEMBER STATES LEVELS?

Authors

  • Laurent Guihery University of them Lumiera, Lyon-2

Keywords:

Crisis, debt, financial markets, high technology, infrastructure, investments, licenses, management, mobile connection operators, mobile Internet, network, new standard, services.

Abstract

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.

 

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08.05.2018

How to Cite

Guihery, Laurent. “UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM (UMTS) IN EUROPE: FAILURE OF PUBLIC POLICY, BOTH AT THE EUROPEAN UNION AND MEMBER STATES LEVELS?”. Journal of European Economy, vol. 2, no. 2, May 2018, pp. 258-75, https://jeej.wunu.edu.ua/index.php/enjee/article/view/1227.

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2003): JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN ECONOMY

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