In this article we provide a seminal academic investigation of mo-bile telephony consumers' perception of the recently introduced costcap tari in comparison to corresponding pay-per-use and atrate call-ing plans. Previous studies have identied several psychological eectsthrough which consumers...

This paper presents simple conditions for monopoly third-degree price discrimination to have negative or positive e¤ectson aggregate consumer surplus. Consumer surplus is often re-duced by discrimination, for example when total welfare (con-sumer surplus and pro…ts) falls. Surplus increases...

Success in innovation management of telecommunication products depends not only on sales, but also, and primarily so, on actual call times by subscribers (e.g. on their mobile phones). It is not only the purchase price that plays a major role for this type of service, but also call and rental...

Eine Reihe von Initiativen sind auf dem Weg, die entweder zu einer deutlichen Senkungoder sogar zur Abschaffung der Mobilterminierungsentgelte (MTRs)1 führen werden.Ziel der Europäischen Kommission ist eine bessere Harmonisierung der MTRs unterden Mitgliedsstaaten. Ein wichtiger zusätzlicher...