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created in hopes of increasing competition. One example is the licensing of cellular telephone services in the United States … geographic markets. Taking advantage of the unique regulatory environment, we test to what degree duopolistic competition leads …
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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 …
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We consider some two dynamic models of entry in mobile telephony, with and without strategic pricing, and taking into account market penetration at entry, locked-in consumers and tariff-mediated network externalities. We show that on/off-net differentials may reduce the possibility of entry if...
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ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify networks. As a result, while fostering competition for mobile customers, MNP … competition …
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This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). We show that if the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no...
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To foster competition the French government authorized a fourth operator, lsquo;Free', to enter the country's mobile …-third and one-sixth of the market. By using a stylized model of France's phone market, we have examined what we call the … regulator's nightmares and dreams. If Cournot competition is in place before Free's entry, minimizing the total profit fails to …
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for...
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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rivals from getting the spectrum needed to compete effectively. Thus, regulators typically attempt to protect competition …
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommunications markets and, based on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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