The benefits consumers get from a mobile phone depend on the software apps available to use on that phone. These indirect network effects are especially important since apps are specific to a platform (e.g., iOS or Android) and are often not available on all platforms at once. We measure the...

In this paper we utilize discrete choice experiment method to identify and measure switching costs and network effects in mobile telephony in Poland. Based on hypothetical choices consumers make we construct a conditional random parameters multinomial logit model to analyze their preferences. In...

Mobile telephony is described as a two-sided market where customers are seen as senders and receivers of communications that are mutually beneficial both to callers and receivers. This has implications in terms of market definition and market power. The economics of mobile call termination is...