Discussion Papers

Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon operate globally and have massively expanded their business. We examine strategic diversification (acquisitions and…

The migration from a copper access network to an FTTH network over several intermediate technological steps requires higher investment and causes…

WIK Discussion Paper calculates saving potential for infrastructure duplication based on co-laying, co-use and 4-fiber model.

Market researchers expect high growth in the M2M/IoT sector. At the same time, there are no dedicated forecasts on the development of mobile…

WIK study analyses volumes and sales channels of newspapers and periodicals, and ultimately on delivery markets in Germany.

There are already many use cases for artificial intelligence. But how prepared and developed is the telecommunications sector concerning AI? And what…

A presentation of the spectrum management policy of the national spectrum authorities in Europe, China, South Korea and the United States of America,…

Digitization continues with the allocation of 5G frequencies. This study shows three fields of application and highlights technical, frequency policy…

Different market structures as well as end customer and wholesale products and previous experience with regard to the use of price/cost margin squeeze…

The study gives an overview over today‘s state of 5G standardisation and its future steps, over options of migration towards 5G mobile network and its…

The notification and reporting obligations in the German postal market have remained largely unchanged since 1998. For an amendment of the Postal Act,…

German electricity networks are subject to efficiency benchmarking. Against the back-ground of the development towards smart grids, this study…