Summary The regulatory agencies found mobile termination to be monopolistic and adopted a policy of ex ante price regulation in recent years. This paper discusses two structural alternatives putting mobile termination under competitive pressure. The first one is the...

Abstract The main internet problem is how to deal with temporary overload, which negatively affects quality-sensitive high value services while others do not suffer. Capacity overprovisioning als well as volume tariffs will not be efficient. The optimal solution is the application of priority...

Strict net neutrality means that any data packet of any service should be treated strictly equal, independent of origin, destination and type of service, no matter what the economic value of congestion-free conveyance actually is. There is a broad consensus that any blocking or retardation of...

Der Mobilfunk, der in der Bundesrepublik besonders hohe Wachstumsraten aufweist, ist weiterhin ein stark regulierter Sektor. Das Buch analysiert, wie die Lizenzierungs- und Regulierungspraktiken im Mobilfunk |konomisch zu bewerten und ob solche ordnungspolitisch }berhaupt erforderlich sind. Der...

This paper analyzes the impact on mobile telephony diffusion patterns of the two predominant payment regimes, calling party pays (CPP) and receiving party pays (RPP), for mobile termination services. By applying instrumental variable techniques to panel data we account for a possible...