Commissioned by Microsoft
Although parallel EU initiatives exist to promote the availability of high speed broadband and to support applications such as cloud computing, debates mixing the two aspects have often been adversarial, with different players competing as to which side of the value chain confers greater value, and whether European telecom operators are losing out both to applications and to the US more generally. The present study focuses both on the (perceived) network-application trade-off as well as on the (perceived) Europe-U.S. stress-field.
To this end, the study addresses:
Thus, the key interest is in whether there is a virtuous and/or vicious circle in the digital value chain.
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