This paper aims at discussing the entry process and competitive strategies of MVNOs in Italy and France. It illustrates the features of competition in a sector – the mobile telecom service industry – which is characterized by market saturation and demand heterogeneity. In doing so, it looks...

The article studies the intensity of usage of VoIP, analysing individual data on a sample of UK consumers collected by OFCOM in 2006. In particular, it examines the role of firms' strategies in affecting the intensity of usage and the degree of substitution/complementarity between VoIP and other...

This paper investigates the importance that consumers assign to local network effects, i.e. the extent to which they take account of their contacts' mobile operators when choosing a provider for themselves. The authors identify individual characteristics that affect the importance consumers...

Evidence is provided on the relationship between changes in product characteristics and product prices by constructing constant quality price indexes for hubs, a category of equipment for Local Area Networks (LANs). Relying on a database of more than 500 hubs marketed between 1990 and 1999...