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Article: Seven Deadly Sins Of Electronic Communications Regulation In Ireland.
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 29, 2008
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1. Introduction
The utopian internal market where obstacles to the provision of electronic communications services are eliminated is attractive. Consumers benefit from choice and quality for effectively priced communications services while electronic communications providers enjoy fairer competition and greater legal certainty.
EU internal market rhetoric offers much. Electronic communications providers are tantalized by promises of effective free movement, regulatory barrier elimination and fairer competition. True, some success has been achieved. Certain inter-state barriers to market integration have been reduced. But, the current legal ...