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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...
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(‘TPP’) has been hailed as one of the key achievements of the Telecommunications Chapter, and the treaty more broadly …
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whether this conclusion can be reversed in the mobile telecommunications markets where dynamic efficiency effects might be … the static ones in the mobile telecommunications industry. Therefore, a merger from four to three mobile operators may be …
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This paper addresses the mobile service pricing and affordability issues in China. Taking history as a mirror, it shows … conditions in China, and of technologies developments worldwide, shows community-based indiviudal tariifs will speed up the … China …
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tariff setting in German mobile telecommunications between 2001 and 2009. We find that large operators are more likely to …
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application to China Telecom data shows that mixed bundling is beneficial to both the firm and the consumer relative to component …
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Government restrictions on entry are endemic in telecommunications, even where there are no obvious reasons for them …, as is the case in mobile telecommunications. This may in part be because policy makers genuinely do not understand the … different regulatory regimes, this paper shows how competition spurs telecommunications penetration. Further, we show that …
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The Chinese telecommunications sector is undergoing fundamental changes as it moves towards liberalization. This paper … examines how liberalization and privatization have affected the performance of Chinese telecommunications industry. We identify …, we examine the effects of reforms on prices and subscription levels of both of mobile and fixed line telecommunications …
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OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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