In order to compare the telecommunication service prices of the member countries, OECD announces biannually country rankings of the best offer prices calculated using representative user baskets definition. Whereas the existing criticisms on such OECD price index focused mainly on the...

It has been incessantly argued that the level of mobile charges and the resulting portion of communication expenditure over household expenditure are too high, which implies that despite the growth of the mobile market, the performance of competition is problematic and some works for...

Bundling, beneficial in the sense that it increases consumers' surplus and offers an opportunity for a new source of revenues to operators, could be exploited as a tool of leveraging market power into new service market. The bundling in this context, has been prohibited until criteria for...

The author reexamines the Schmalensee effect from a dynamic perspective. Schmalsensee’s argument suggesting that high quality can be signaled by high prices is based on the assumption that higher quality necessarily incurs higher production cost. In this paper, the author argues that firms...