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Armstrong, Mark - 2014

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...

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Social Networks and Choice of Mobile Phone Operator

Birke, Daniel; Swann, G. M. - 2006

The aim of this paper is to estimate the importance of (induced) network effects in the use of mobile telephones and the impact of the structure of social networks on a consumer's adoption decision. This is done using social network data obtained from a survey of second year undergraduate...

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Contracts and Competition in the Pay-Tv Market

Harbord, David; Ottaviani, Marco - 2003

This paper analyses how contractual arrangement for the sale and resale of premium programming effect competition in … the pay-TV market. Competition is less effective when resale contracts specify per-subscriber fees rather than lump … contracts would intensify downstream competition and transfer the benefits of premium programming to consumers …

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