Regulation of Wireless Stakeholders

The wireless communications sector is a heavily regulated industry area where regulatory authorities have remarkably much power in defining the market dynamics. It has been widely debated which amount of regulatory measures are necessary without having too much distorting effect on healthily working free markets. However, regulation is usually reasoned merely by economic arguments, overlooking entirely the social aspects involving. This may hamper the technological adoption and even prevent operators from creating user friendly handsets. The proceeding media convergence has also brought a new class of entrants, some of which hardly resemble conventional operators, which is making the regulatory crafting and enforcing gradually more challenging. This paper addresses a number of currently ongoing issues and gives a brief overview on the wireless telecommunications regulation, finally discussing about which kind of impact this may have on business, both on the EU and the US resolution.