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Substitution between fixed, mobile, and voice over IP telephony : evidence from the European Union

Lange, Mirjam; Saric, Amela - 2016

Developments in the EU telecommunications markets require a recurrent redesign of the regulatory framework for … telecommunications services. In this regard, the analysis of the substitution effects between different types of telephony is the …

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Satisfaction and protection of individual mobile telecommunications consumers : need for regulation? ; [prepared for presentation at the European Regional Conference of the Interna...

Gijón Tascón, Covadonga; Garín-Muñoz, Teresa; … - 2012

Mobile telecommunications markets have been studied primarily from the perspectives of mobile telecom operators, market … research questions of the project are whether, and to what extent, individual consumers of mobile telecommunications are … can increase the efficiency of the industry and the welfare of telecommunications consumers. The specific research …

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Telecommunications and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa

Lee, Sang Hyup - 2012

present between land-line penetration and mobile telecommunications expansion. This study extends previous ones along two … important dimensions. First, we allow for the potential endogeneity between economic growth and telecommunications expansion by … substitutability between mobile cellular and land-line telephony, so that greater expansion of mobile telecommunications can have a …

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An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Demand in South Africa

Recuero Virto, Laura - 2014

This paper provides some estimates of demand elasticity for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by fitting a structural discrete consumer choice model to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find higher price elasticities than...

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Market Structure and Service Availability of Mobile Telecommunications in the U.S

Dai, Mian - 2014

Using a hand-collected dataset from 2005, this paper investigates the determinants of wireless service provision in specific geographic locations. Studying the wireless service availability in isolated towns provides useful insights into Universal Service Fund subsidies in high cost areas. We...

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The International Business of Mobile Telecommunications : Expansion Across Africa

Sutherland, Ewan - 2017

Once governments in Africa were persuaded to create markets for mobile telecommunications, a complex game of buying and …

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Technology Assessment of IoT Wireless Network Technologies for the Telecommunication Sector

Tokareva, Maria - 2019

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are of particular interest for telecommunication companies that can significantly affect the interaction of economic agents. As a result of the growth in the number of connected devices, the introduction of cloud services and business applications it became...

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Static or Dynamic Efficiency : Horizontal Merger Effects in the Wireless Telecommunications Industry

Grajek, Michal - 2018

This paper studies five mergers in the European wireless telecommunication industry and analyzes their impact on prices and capital expenditures of both merging carriers and their rivals. We find substantial heterogeneity in the relationship between increases in concentration and carriers'...

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Estimating Network Effects and Compatibility in Mobile Telecommunications

Grajek, Michal - 2015

I develop a structural demand model for mobile telephone service, which facilitates the identification of network effects and compatibility between networks. Network effects are measured by the dependence of consumer willingness to pay on the installed base of subscribers. Compatibility is...

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3g Mobile Telecommunications Licenses in Europe : A Critical Review

Gruber, Harald - 2013

This paper makes a critical review of the introduction of first 3G mobile services and the evolution of market structure. There is evidence in support of to the quot;overbiddingquot; hypothesis, i.e. license fees determined in auctions were higher than ultimately compatible with the originally...

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