The impact of digitisation on all aspects of European economies and society continues to grow. However, the opportunities offered by this digitisation are dependent on widespread access to high-speed internet connections.
The European Commission has set the target that all European households should have access to networks offering a download speed of at least 100 Mbps by 2025. A number of supply-side policies aimed at stimulating investment and infrastructure roll-out have followed.
However, such policies assume that sufficient levels of demand – and particularly the willingness to pay – exist or will come to exist. This should not be taken for granted.
This CERRE report considers the determinants of demand for ultrafast broadband, the motivations of consumers in switching from basic connections and barriers they may encounter, and examines a number of demand-side policy options which could help accelerate the transition to ultrafast broadband.
Marc Bourreau is a Academic Co-Director at CERRE and Professor of Economics at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary institute for innovation (i3) for his research.
His research focuses on competition policy and regulation, digital markets, and telecommunications.
Marc holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas.
Richard Feasey is a CERRE Research Fellow, an independent consultant and a Senior Adviser to the Payment Systems Regulator in the UK.
He lectures at University College London and Kings College London.
Richard was previously the Public Policy Director of Vodafone Group plc from 2001 until 2013.
In October 2017, he was appointed to the panel of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and in October 2018 to the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.
Steffen Hoerning is Associate Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. His research areas include industrial organisation, with emphasis on network economics, research and development, and oligopoly theory.
His research has been published in journals such as Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Journal of Regulatory Economics, among others.
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