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 …

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 …

paper provides an analysis of the competition and monopoly issues behind the CPP and MPP regimes and offers the tools to … conditions. To do so, one begins with an analysis of what competition means for mobile service. This continues with the …

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

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 …

In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each … network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute … termination charge, we find that a reduction of the termination charge below cost has two opposing effects: it softens competition …

This paper surveys the recent literature on competition between mobile networks in the presence of call externalities … and network effects. It argues that the regulation of mobile termination rates based on fully allocated costs, or “long …-run incremental cost plus”, exacerbates the network effects associated with “tariff-mediated network externalities”, by increasing …

In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each … network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute … termination charge, we find that a reduction of the termination charge below cost has two opposing effects: it softens competition …

This paper surveys the recent literature on competition between mobile network operators in the presence of call … externalities and network effects. It shows that the regulation of mobile termination rates based on "long-run incremental costs …