Showing 1 - 10 of 1,217
The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676
We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888496
considerably, because the consumer surplus gains far outweigh profit losses. As such, the removal of market power more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622563
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602181
the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
within the setting of fixed telecommunications markets. From an economist's perspective, the key question that underlies the …'s competitive stance in the wholesale market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201814
The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more … competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400807
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029118
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495802
We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … the most developed ones. We finally analyze the supply side of the market, trying to assess the impact of market … significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806687