Using telephone call data assembled from a number of African countries, a model is employed to estimate the role of the regulatory environment as defined by the ITU. The GMM models predict that the absolute size of the impact of regulatory improvements on outgoing call volumes is probably larger...

The purpose of this paper is to review the effectiveness of the various initiatives taken to regulate international mobile roaming over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is an analysis of the policies and the measures and their effects on prices and industry dynamics....

In August 2012, the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development and the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy released a Draft Report on Trans-Tasman Roaming. Using these recent developments in the Trans-Tasman market as a case study, this article examines...

International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...