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Urban Broadband Internet Policies in Europe: A Critical Review

European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738 (room H12-33), 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, vwinden{at}few.eur.nl

Paulus Woets

European Institute for Comparative Urban Research (Euricur), Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738 (room H12-33), 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, woets{at}few.eur.nl

For many reasons, cities and regions in Europe play an increasingly active role in providing and/or promoting broadband access to the Internet. This article describes and analyses local policy interventions in the broadband infrastructure market and presents a typology of four different kinds of policy. For each policy type, the cities' objectives and rationale for intervening in the broadband market are described. Subsequently, a critical analysis is made of the alleged benefits of broadband policies and the associated risks and costs are discussed.

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