The mobile gaming industry is growing at a rapid pace. Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices are new channels to deliver games to customers. However, since the birth of Internet, users have been accustomed to getting things for free. How then are mobile game companies able to make...

The telecommunications market was completely open to competition in 1998 in Spain, as in most EU countries. The model for the liberalization of the market was based on the regulated use of the incumbent operators' network, so that new entrants could initially use these resources to allow for a...

In the emerging market of online video services, new media entrants and traditional gatekeepers are making efforts to reinvent the dominant modes of video supply and consumption while fighting for market power and customer lock-in. This article studies, through a number of U.S. and European...

This paper deals with the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP telephony in the EU.We estimate the supply and demand for fixed-line telephony using data on 25 EU member states for the 2006:Q2 - 2011:Q4 period. Employing instrumental variable approach, we...

This work analyzes the post-purchase behavior of mobile phone users once they have experienced a service failure. Taking into account the existing literature on Consumer Complaint Behavior (CCB), a survey for 4249 individuals in Spain is used for specifying econometric equations explaining the...

The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) has recently proposed a framework to assess the reasonableness of traffic management (TM) practices. This paper discusses BEREC's proposal from a network economic perspective focusing on the underlying concepts of congestion,...