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This paper establishes an economic theory of information value and volume that differs from Shannon's mathematical theory of communication (Shannon, 1948). The economics of information should be recognized as an important frontier field of economics to explore the 4th industrial revolution...
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In this paper, we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous...
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&A) in the telecommunications sector, trying to understand if the glamour company's M&A operations conduct to the stockholder … abnormal returns of telecommunications M&A from 2000 to 2010 and evaluating the value creation/destruction of these operations …
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OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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players. The internet ecosystem is a much more complex scenario than the traditional telecommunications market and has changed …
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Bundling becomes a dominant sales strategy in telecommunications. Dual and triple-play packages are increasingly …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...
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In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of demand to analyse the equilibrium effect of the RAN sharing by using cross-country panel data in 28 EU countries in years 2010-2020. Based on model estimates, our simulation analysis in Spain firstly provides a quantitative...
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There have been substantial technical and policy discussions about the spectrum needs of 5G and the necessity of … expanding access to the higher frequency spectrum, including in the millimeter wave bands from 30 to 300 GHz. The focus, however … markets continue to grow, demand may arise for spectrum in still higher frequency bands above 90GHz, including in the sub …
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Using quarterly data of 58 countries, this paper provides empirical evidence that mobile phone diffusion from 2007 to 2009 is positively influenced by international network effects. Direct and indirect network effects are a result of the international standadization of telecommunication...
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