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This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). As MNP allows consumers to keep their telephone number when switching providers, it reduces consumers’ switching costs. However, MNP may also cause consumer ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify...
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across twenty-eight states. While past studies of telecommunications demand have used fully parametric models, the model …
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There is general concern that producer subsidies distort competition. We examine a telecommunications subsidy system …
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telecommunications sector, by constructing a so-called Composite Regulatory Performance Indicator for regulatory aspects such as …
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Technical standards in telecommunications - the central focus of this paper - were traditionally developed by official … the standards developed by them tend to be ignored. Traditionell wurden technische Standards in der Telekommunikation …
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the multilateral regime for telecommunications services. It begins by analysing the origins of the EU regime, describing …, examining the Uruguay Round and post-Uruguay Round negotiations on telecommunications services and outlining the issues under …
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This paper reviews the part played by economists in organizing the British third-generation mobile-phone licence auction that concluded on 27 April 2000. It raised £22 1/2 billion ($34 billion or 2 1/2% of GNP) and was widely described at the time as the biggest auction ever. We discuss the...
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I suggest explanations for the apparently puzzling bidding in the year 2000 British and German 3G telecom auctions. Relative-performance maximisation may have been important, but the outcome of the British auction seems to have been efficient. This paper bundles my comments on two papers...
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This paper presents an overview of the current situations and reforms in China's telecommunications sector. It …, key players and competition, ownership and growth prospects. It is found that growth in telecommunications services has … structural reforms and deregulation in the telecommunications sector. The provision of services in most areas is now deregulated …
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vertical restraints to competition. Telecommunications services in Brazil are a case in point: its institutional model …
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