We study how political factors can shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition rules reduce … pro-competition, while more politically connected operators are able to distort the rules in their favor, restricting …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

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 …