Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …

European mobile communication markets are two-stage markets which are composed of the infrastructure (the network and … its components) and the service markets (telephony, mobile internet, SMS). In contrast to most other network-based markets … there are multiple fully integrated providers which keep their own network and offer services on their network. Following …

This paper develops a method to analyze the effects of competition policy in a network industry. Competition has mixed … effects on incentives to invest: when a network is split between competitors, each captures only a fraction of potential … network effects. However, a firm may invest in components that are not shared, to attract customers to its network. I …

This paper evaluates whether competition hinders or spurs investment in a network industry. When a network is split … between competitors, potential network effects are foregone. However, a firm may invest in components that are not shared, to … usage, using transaction data from nearly the entire Rwandan network over 4.5 years. I simulate the equilibrium choices of …

investor’s termination rates and increase competitors’ termination rates under the callingparty- network-pays regime. Moreover …, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the …