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12/30/2025

Universal service and full fibre coverage

What contribution does the existing regime make?

What contribution can the universal service regime make when priority is given to commercially viable expansion and residual support for fibre optic…

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12/30/2025

Entry level Fiber products - an International Price Benchmark

In connection with the migration from copper to fibre optics and the shutdown of the copper network, great importance is attached to the voluntary…

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12/29/2025

Backhauling in the context of competitive FTTH rollout (No. 548)

Significance of footprint for backhaul costs – a model-based analysis

To what extent does the spatial footprint of network operators influence the cost of FTTH deployment? A model-based, bottom-up analysis shows that…

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11/18/2025

Period : 03.12.2025 - 21.01.2026

Register now: Train-the-Trainer “Sharing Data, Retaining Control”

The future of industry is connected – data ecosystems such as Manufacturing-X offer a solution for secure, direct and sovereign data…

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WIK GmbH is an independent think tank for many institutions. Our guiding principle is both a programme and an incentive: for 40 years we have been successfully conducting scientific research projects in the field of network industries, especially telecommunications, postal services and energy markets, and accompanying and advising regulatory authorities, ministries and organisations at home and abroad with our scientific work.
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Scientific expertise, bundled specialist knowledge

Scientific expertise, bundled specialist knowledge

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Think tank for many topics

Think tank for many topics

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The core of our work - our research projects

The core of our work - our research projects

Results from research work as well as current studies and expert reports from WIK are published on an ongoing basis. The publications are available for download free of charge and can be filtered by research area and publication type, among other things. You can also find the WIK Newsletter, which is published several times a year, with interesting short reports and information on events related to the Institute here!
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