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In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the …. This raises significant concerns about the competitive effects of such contracts in media and telecommunications markets. …
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There were enormous differences in the revenues from the European ‘third generation’ (3G, or ‘MTS’) mobile-phone license auctions, from 20 Euros per capita in Switzerland to 650 Euros per capita in the UK, though the values of the licences sold were similar. Poor auction designs in some...
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reform. The concept of a national telecommunications grid providing television and basic telephone services is questioned, as …
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. We illustrate how it is possible to quantify the effect of abuse in situation were the entrant has no previous history in …
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In this Paper we consider the economics of platform competition in telecommunications. Platform competition occurs when … different, sometimes incompatible, technologies compete to provide telecommunications services to end-users. Battles between … competing technologies have been an important feature of telecommunications in the last twenty or so years. Examples of platform …
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There is currently little knowledge on the consequences of diffusion of cellular technology on the incumbent fixed-link telephony service. We address this issue by estimation of diffusion curves for both technologies, allowing for potential cross-effects, using data from a small European...
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motivating example is the 1996 Act in the United States which opens telecommunications markets to competition and contains a …
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and political data to analyse both the determinants and the impact of telecommunications policies. We find that …
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This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
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I suggest explanations for the apparently puzzling bidding in the year 2000 British and German 3G telecom auctions. Relative-performance maximisation may have been important, but the outcome of the British auction seems to have been efficient. This paper bundles my comments on two papers...
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