Showing 1 - 10 of 596
Google distributes proprietary applications for its open-source Android mobile operating system (OS) free of charge. Some of those applications (apps) are offered together as a suite of apps known as Google Mobile Services (GMS). Manufacturers of mobile devices can agree, pursuant to Google's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032220
The Apple App Store is the only channel through which app developers may distribute their apps on iOS. First launched in 2008, the App Store has evolved into a highly profitable marketplace, with overall consumer spend exceeding $ 50 billion in 2019. However, concerns are being increasingly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236744
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255201
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767421
Two mobile service pricing frameworks have developed around the world, calling party pays (CPP) and mobile party pays (MPP). With CPP, a wireline customer is billed for placing a call to a mobile phone, and there is no charge to the mobile customer for receiving the call. The mobile customer is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204562
This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217206
Motivated by recent UK experience, we study the problem of mobile call termination. This is an intriguing policy story, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which integrates two existing literatures: one analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709299
As the information age progresses, the need for cheap, easy Internet access increases if we want citizens to be able to participate in the global economy. In both the United States and the European Union, cities have taken the lead in attempting to provide Internet access via wireless Internet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207707
Network neutrality is one of the most hotly debated topics in the telecommunications industry, but little attention has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182397