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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...

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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...

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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

Regulating for Non-Price Discrimination : The Case of UK Fixed Telecoms

Cave, Martin E.; Correa, Lisa; Crocioni, Pietro - 2011

Telecoms regulators have increasingly signaled concerns about the incentives and ability of vertically integrated incumbents to engage in discriminatory behavior against competitors in downstream markets. The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has recently accepted undertakings from British...

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Market Driven Network Neutrality and the Fallacies of Internet Traffic Quality Regulation

Gunter, Knieps - 2014

quality regulation. In particular, heterogeneous demand for traffic quality for time sensitive versus time insensitive …

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Network-Based Price Discrimination and 'Bill-and-Keep' vs. 'Cost-Based' Regulation of Mobile Termination Rates

Harbord, David; Pagnozzi, Marco - 2020

and network effects. It argues that the regulation of mobile termination rates based on fully allocated costs, or “long …

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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers : Implications for Content Variety, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - 2013

investment incentives due to the increased demand for priority services by the entry of new congestion sensitive content …

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Regulating Next-Generation Fixed Access to Telecommunications Services

Lewin, David M.; Williamson, Brian; Cave, Martin E. - 2009

This paper considers a central issue in telecommunications regulation. What rules, if any, should regulators put in … place to provide incentives for timely and efficient investment in NGA while, at the same time, preventing monopoly abuse … reaching customers nation-wide at the same time as the national fixed incumbent for a relatively modest investment. This is …

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Two-Part Access Pricing and Imperfect Competition

Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2003

This paper considers a vertically separated industry with an upstream monopolist who supplies an essential input to two downstream Cournot firms. This situation is relevant to a number of sectors, including the telecommunications industry where trunk operators must have access to the local...

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Competition and Regulatory Policies for Interactive Broadband Networks

Sidak, J. Gregory; Crandall, Robert W. - 2009

Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...

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