Location: Florence School of Regulation
European University Institute
Badia Fiesolana – Via dei Roccettini 9
I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI), Italy

Date: 23-24 October, 2013

Contact: Prof. Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden erik.bohlin@chalmers.se
Dr. Brigitte Preissl, ZBW, Hamburg, Germany, b.preissl@zbw.eu

13.00 - 13.15 Registration

13.15 -13.30 Opening Remarks: Professor Erik Bohlin & Dr. Brigitte Preissl

13.30 - 14.15 Broadband Policy

Measuring fixed broadband policy through composite indices
Mathieu Tahon
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Discussant: Professor Rekha Jain, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India

14.15 – 15.00 Convergence of Broadcasting and Communications

Taking your live TV with you: business and control strategies
Vânia Gonçalves
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal / Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium

Discussant: Professor Yu-li Liu, National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan

15.00 - 15.15 Coffee Break

15.15 - 16.00 Developing the Information Society

Regionalism and the development of the information society in developing. economies: The SADC case
Enrico Simone Calandro
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Discussant: Professor Emanuele Giovanetti, Anglia Ruskin University, England

16.00 – 16.45 Open Access

A Unified Framework for Open Access to Telecommunications Infrastructure
Daniel Schnurr
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

Discussant: Hitoshi Mitomo, Waseda University, Japan

16.45 - 17.30 User Studies

Satisfaction and complaints of residential mobile phone users in Spain
Covadonga Gijón
Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Discussant: Professor Gary Madden, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

17.30-17.45 Reflections & General Discussion

Dr. Sven Lindmark, iMinds, Belgium

19.00 PhD dinner, place TBD

9.00 – 9.15 Opening remarks: Professor Erik Bohlin, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

9.15 - 10.00 Spectrum Management

A new institutional perspective on shared spectrum access issues
Alison Bunel
TEM, Institute Telecom, Paris, France

Discussant: Professor Rohit Prasad, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India

10.00 - 10.45 Broadband Policy

Analysis of direct public policy toward broadband: A demand and supply perspective
Mingchan Cheng
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Discussant: Professor Jason Whalley, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.45 Investment and Competition

Measuring competition for investment: Empirical evidence from the mobile telecommunications industry
Georges Vivienne Houngbonon

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

Discussant: Professor Claudio Feijoo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

11.45 -12.30 Online Social Networks and Policy

Addressing lock-in, network effects and entry barriers in online social networks: regulatory and competition law issues

Inge Graef
Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI), iMinds, KU Leuven, Belgium

Discussant: Professor Nico Grove, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

12.30 - 13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.15 Mobile Banking

Mobile Banking Services in the East African Community (EAC): Challenges to the Existing Legislative and Regultory Frameworks in the EAC
Joseph Nyaga
Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI), iMinds, KU Leuven, Belgium

Discussant: Professor Anders Henten, Aalborg University, Denmark

14.15 – 15.00 Demand for 100 Mbit

What make people adopt an ultra-high speed (100 Mbit/s) broadband? An empirical study of Swedish broadband market
Chatchai Kongaut
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Discussant: Teodosio Pérez Amaral, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 16.00 Internet Evolution

Internet Evolution and Overlay Networks
Volker Stocker
University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Discussant: Professor Jan Krämer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

16.00 – 16.15 Reflections & General Discussion

Dr. Brigitte Preissl, ZBW, Hamburg, Germany

19.00 PhD dinner, place TBD

Participant List (PhD Candidates)

Discussant List