We analyzed unique panel data from NBTC to uncover Thai consumers' preference toward Over-the-top (OTT) communication service and traditional voice call in the post-Covid-19 period. Employing a dynamic panel model, we estimate the demand relationship between telecommunication services. We found...

This paper aims to examine the impact of spectrum prices on mobile operators' industry investment using country-level data from 13 countries spanning 2013 to 2022. We employ four models to explore the quantitative evidence, with a preference for the one-step system GMM model through hypothesis...

In the past decades, Thailand's telecommunication market has accommodated 3 dominant providers ranked by subscribers, namely AIS, TRUE, and DTAC, along with one minor government-owned provider NT. In 2021, TRUE and DTAC requested to merge, which was eventually approved by the national regulatory...

Mobile telecommunications service industry has oligopolistic market structure. Four or three mobile network operators (MNOs) seem to be a magic number for telecom regulators as their competition safeguard. The merger and acquisition (M&A) process of MNOs has been a debate for several decades,...

Spectrum auction has been accepted as an efficient tool for allocating the radio spectrum and increasing competition level among service providers in the telecommunication market. Most of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) use spectrum cap as an incentive instrument to facilitate new...

Motivation, background and problem statement: Fixed and mobile broadband substitutability has recently been a debate in the telecom industry as the issue affects infrastructure investment decisions of service providers and service obligation regulation decision of telecom authorities. Previous...

This study aims to investigate the customer loyalty on Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) in Thailand. Data were collected from the accidental sampling which consists of 400 IPTV customers in Bangkok through the self-administered questionnaire in 2014. Descriptive statistics, including...

Spectrum auction has been accepted as an efficient tool for allocating the radio spectrum and increasing competition level among service providers in the telecommunication market. Most of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) use spectrum cap as an incentive instrument to facilitate new...

Motivation, background and problem statement: Fixed and mobile broadband substitutability has recently been a debate in the telecom industry as the issue affects infrastructure investment decisions of service providers and service obligation regulation decision of telecom authorities. Previous...

This paper aims to explore the price plans offered by Thai mobile operators and analyse the role of demand characteristics in the development of new price plans. The paper also shows how demand affects a firm's degree of innovativeness in terms of the number of new price plans. The empirical...