How spectrum policy could (or could not) achieve a single market for electronic communications

Alison Bunel () and Denis Lescop ()
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Alison Bunel: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management
Denis Lescop: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management

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Abstract: Is a European spectrum policy a pre-requisite to the single market? Or, conversely, is the single market a pre-requisite to a European spectrum policy? The answer to this question leads to a different choice of regulatory system. Enforcing a European spectrum policy to build a single market should deeply change the institutional design of European Regulation: a transfer of power from the Member States to the Commission will be necessary to create a European Regulator. This choice can theoretically prevent fragmentation of the single market by ensuring a harmonised management of spectrum throughout Europe. Adopting a more liberal point of view will leave the power of structuring the single market to the market forces. However, reaching a single market means consolidation of the sector: either by mergers and acquisitions or by allowing some agreements between operators. This consolidation is anyway on its way. The strategic use of competition policy and a lighter sector-specific regulation can orientate the operators towards the creation of a single market. Once the single market will be mature enough, the operators will undeniably ask for a European-wide band of spectrum to facilitate their undertaking and to stabilize their business model.

Keywords: Spectrum management; Regulation; Electronic communication; Single market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03
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Published in Communications & stratégies, 2014, 93, pp.81 - 97

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