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Single eComms Market? No Such Thing..

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  • Jacques Pelkmans

    (Senior Research Fellow, CEPS (Brussels); Visiting Professor, College of Europe (Bruges))

  • Andrea Renda

    (CEPS (Brussels))

Abstract

Notwithstanding the undeniable success of telecoms liberalisation in terms of price reduction, new services and technologies as well as consumer satisfaction, EU telecoms policy is at least a half failure. This might seem hard to believe, but we show in this policy briefing that there is no such thing as an EU telecoms (or eComms) single market. We provide ample empirical economic and regulatory evidence of profound and lingering fragmentation as well as a short assessment of the flaws of the third eComms package of 2009, now in force. Overcoming the fragmentation cannot but yield a considerable welfare improvement for the Union, which is exactly what a single market should be expected to deliver. Doing away with the flaws in the EU system requires a better institutional design. We wonder whether the regulatory (and competition policy) approach is really suitable for the Union and whether the fundamental conflict between the EU constitutional doctrine and the building of the single market (just as much a constitutional duty!) should not be resolved in novel ways.

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  • Jacques Pelkmans & Andrea Renda, 2010. "Single eComms Market? No Such Thing..," Bruges European Economic Policy Briefings 22, European Economic Studies Department, College of Europe.
    • Handle: RePEc:coe:wpbeep:22
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    Keywords

    EU telecoms policy; digital single market; eComms liberalisation; regulation and competition policy.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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