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12/04/2023

Study on the robotics market (No. 500)

WIK analyses the impact of innovative digital technologies on the market for industrial robotics applications

Industrial robotics systems have played an important role for efficient production processes of large companies for several decades. Innovative…

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11/10/2023

In-building infrastructure (No. 499)

A necessary step for the migration to FTTH

In this study on in-building infrastructure, we examine barriers to the roll-out and upgrade of in-building infrastructure to support high gigabit…

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08/22/2023

Characteristics and performance of NGA technologies (No. 498)

Overview of today’s and future state of Next Generation Access networks

The changes occurring in the telecommunications access networks require high level of understanding at politicians and regulators, but also at…

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12/29/2022

New delivery services, effects on market structures and implications on competition policy (No. 497)

Does Amazon challenge the German parcel market?

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12/23/2022

Climate-neutral postal services: Status quo of letter and parcel operators in Germany (No. 496)

Technological, financial and organisational barriers hamper the sustainable transformation of transport networks.

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12/22/2022

Digitalization applications and identification of digitalization trends in SMEs (No. 495)

Which technologies will be relevant for SMEs in the near future and how can these be applied? How can emerging technologies be evaluated in light of…

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12/22/2022

Spatial Extension of Access Networks – an Economic Analysis (No. 494)

Fibre based access technologies allow for access line length of more than 100 km. By applying a simple FTTH PtP investment model, we show that in most…

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12/22/2022

Spatial Extension of Access Networks – a Technical Analysis (No. 493)

What are the technical determinants of the range of line length in access networks? And what conclusions can be drawn from this for the spatial…

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12/21/2022

From Legacy to the Future: Incentivising Demand Migration through Access Fees (No. 492)

In this paper, we analyze how wholesale access fees of a crucial input can be utilized to influence demands for products of different technologies and…

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12/20/2022

The role of refurbishment providers in the smartphone market (No. 491)

The study explains the refurbishment business model and gives an overview of market development and providers.

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12/20/2022

eSIM – Potential, challenges and competition problems (No. 490)

An analysis of the market relevance of eSIM, its implications for relevant stakeholders and the value chain as well as potential competition problems…

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12/20/2022

Developments towards 6G (No. 489)

While many 5G business applications are still in their infancy, the geopolitical race for the 6G leadership with regards to research and development…

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