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Testing the "Waterbed" Effect in Mobile Telephony
Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones. Under quite general conditions of competition, theory suggests that lower termination charges will result in higher prices for mobile subscribers, a phenomenon known as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150999
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What drives investment in telecommunications? The role of regulation, firms’ internationalization and market knowledge
Montolio, Daniel; Trujillo, Elisa - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2012
The aim of this paper is to classify the firms operating in the European telecommunications market according to their … access regulation on infrastructure investment in European broadband markets. To do so, we construct a (unique) data set for … entrant and incumbent firms. Our results show no significant relation between regulation and total investment. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652005
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Mobile Termination and Mobile Penetration
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, we find that a reduction of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547319
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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities, and Consumer Expectations
Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel L. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547369
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms … explores how the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term helped shape their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Assessment of sectoral innovation systems approach: The case of Turkish internet service market
Tözer, Ayhan; Göktaylar, Yavuz - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The aim of this paper is to evaluate sectoral innovation system of Turkish internet service market by looking into some case studies and making interviews with related actors. In this attempt, firstly, a sectoral innovation systems approach has been described briefly from theoretical point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372236
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Mobile telephony in the UK
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the U.K., including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination charges on mobile networks, and (iii) the level of connection subsidies offered by mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644936
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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities, and Consumer Expectations
Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel L. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2010
We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592876
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Regulatory environment and firm performance in EU telecommunications services
Montolio, Daniel; Trillas, Francesc; Trujillo-Baute, Elisa - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
We empirically estimate the effects of regulated access prices and firms’ multinational status on firm performance by using firm, corporate group, and country level information for the European broadband market between 2002 and 2010. Three measures of firm performance are used, namely: market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756142