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The Impact of 'Rollover' Contracts on Switching Costs in the UK Voice Market: Evidence from Disaggregate Customer Billing Data

Crawford, Gregory S; Tosini, Nicola; Waehrer, Keith - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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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How (Not) to Run Auctions: The European 3G Telecom Auctions

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

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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Computing Abuse Related Damages in the Case of New Entry: An Illustration for the Directory Enquiry Services Market

Martinez Granado, Maite; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

A number of European countries, among which the UK and Spain, have opened up their Directory Enquiry Services (DQs) market to competition. In Spain, both local and foreign firms challenged the incumbent as of April 2003. The latter abused its dominant position by providing an inferior quality...

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The Impact of Mobile Phone Diffusion on the Fixed-Link Network

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Cadima, Nuno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

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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Strategic Pricing and Entry under Universal Service and Cross-Market Price Constraints

Anton, James J; Weide, James H Vander; Vettas, Nikolaos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

motivating example is the 1996 Act in the United States which opens telecommunications markets to competition and contains a …

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Telecommunications Policies: Determinants and Impact

Gual, Jordi; Trillas, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

and political data to analyse both the determinants and the impact of telecommunications policies. We find that …

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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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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Some Observations on the British and German 3G Telecom Auctions

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

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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Market Definition in the Telecoms Industry

Gual, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

assesses whether the general principles need to be adapted when dealing with the telecommunications services industry. The … are needed. First, careful consideration should be given not only to demand substitutabilities, but also to the … competitive interaction with all potential suppliers. Second, demand complementarities and the economies of joint production …

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Using and Abusing Economic Theory

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...

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