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Capacity-based interconnection (CBI) prices vary exactly with the costs a network provider incurs when supplying an interconnecting party. That is, they equal incremental costs, rather than being averaged over any output measure. We argue such prices (1) are as practicable and more efficient...
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services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States …
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This paper examines mobile termination fees and their regulation when networks are asymmetric in size. It is … the smaller the network's size (as measured through its subscriber base) and (b) asymmetric regulation of only the larger …
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We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …
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, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which … the efficient and the monopoly benchmarks. There remains a rationale for regulation, albeit reduced relative to the …
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wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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telephone calls, sending text messages, or using data services in other EEA countries. The regulation was designed to create a … digital domestic market without adversely affecting consumers. The regulation raises the expectation of changes in mobile …
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This paper considers a central issue in telecommunications regulation. What rules, if any, should regulators put in … regulators might specify the price regulation principles which would apply to operators found to have significant market power …
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International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...
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