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7. Conclusion: Upcoming Challenges for EU Communications Policy

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Abstract

Over the past four decades, EU communications policy has become a sophisticated institution constituted by significant vertical depth and horizontal linkage. The process of rule-making on communications has illustrated the capacity to actively integrate a former national policy area into EU policy-making through institutional engineering and institutional entrepreneurship seizing contextual changes. The disruptions caused by liberalization had been the sincerest in the sector. The friction that currently occurs in the context of internet communications and the related net neutrality debate could become likewise sincere. While institutional change towards liberalization resulted from regulatory change, the clash between traditional communications and internet communications results from technological change in the very institutional context.

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Footnotes
1
From the 1983 Green Paper to the review of the converged market and the establishment of BEREC in 2009.
 
2
Other than the previous schemes, this scheme also includes the pivotal rule of ‘end-to-end/best effort’ that inheres in Internet communications since its advent and is thus a pivotal rule to Internet technology as such – contributing to the pivotal open internet rules.
 
Metadata
Title
Conclusion: Upcoming Challenges for EU Communications Policy
Author
Simon P. Rinas
Copyright Year
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33014-9_7