Users are increasingly concerned by the apparently arbitrary and often exorbitant charges for roaming services on their mobile telephones. Charges seem to have no relationship to costs or to best practice. Service providers make little effort to inform customers of the charges they will incur....

European roaming rates are not set by market forces because when a competitive market did not evolve in Europe, European legislators stepped in to set rates by legislative fiat. This paper argues that legislators' tendency to set rates cautiously led to high wholesale prices that undermined...

This paper suggests that international roaming markets suffer from structural flaws in the way that roaming agreements are established in Europe. The initial roaming interventions by the European Commission in 2007 have been very welfare enhancing and the transfer of producer surplus to...

Mobile termination rates (MTRs) have been an important issue for regulators and operators in the telecommunications industry. Most regulators, especially the European Commission (EC), have tried to cut MTRs using cost-based regulation in the belief of improving social welfare and encouraging an...