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merely be restricted to 2G spectrum. Further, given the convergence of the computing and telecommunications industries and …, telecommunications and entertainment interface to the consumer, one has to look at regulating the market power of networks rather than of …
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This study investigates the components of the mobile telephone demand in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) between 1995 and 2007. We find that the magnitude of demand elasticities do not entice collusive behavior between service providers because the effect of price...
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service sector, including the telecommunications. The end of the twentieth century showed an intensive integration processes …
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and in every decile of the income distribution. Changes in the electricity and telecommunications industries dominated …
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at the heart of the reforms of the telecommunications industry in developing countries, namely, liberalization … translated into actual deployment of telecommunications infrastructure. This simultaneous investigation is conducted by means of …
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There were enormous differences in the revenues from the European ‘third generation’ (3G, or ‘MTS’) mobile-phone license auctions, from 20 Euros per capita in Switzerland to 650 Euros per capita in the UK, though the values of the licences sold were similar. Poor auction designs in some...
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reform. The concept of a national telecommunications grid providing television and basic telephone services is questioned, as …
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A number of European countries, among which the UK and Spain, have opened up their Directory Enquiry Services (DQs) market to competition. In Spain, both local and foreign firms challenged the incumbent as of April 2003. The latter abused its dominant position by providing an inferior quality...
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In this Paper we consider the economics of platform competition in telecommunications. Platform competition occurs when … different, sometimes incompatible, technologies compete to provide telecommunications services to end-users. Battles between … competing technologies have been an important feature of telecommunications in the last twenty or so years. Examples of platform …
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There is currently little knowledge on the consequences of diffusion of cellular technology on the incumbent fixed-link telephony service. We address this issue by estimation of diffusion curves for both technologies, allowing for potential cross-effects, using data from a small European...
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