Oversimplified and Misleading International Price Comparisons Must Not Guide Policy and Regulatory Decisions

Rewheel's “Digital Fuel Monitor” (DFM) has never been subject to a comprehensive peer review.The present report fills this void by examining the proclaimed accuracy of a complete version of one of Rewheel's studies, namely, Rewheel/research's “The state of 4G pricing – 1H2018,” Digital Fuel Monitor 9th release, dated May 1, 2018, as a tool to compare international retail prices for mobile wireless services and as a measure of a country's state of competition. It finds that Rewheel's Digital Fuel Monitor is a highly simplistic international price comparison exercise that results in economically meaningless rankings