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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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Key Issues in Expansion of End-User Mobile Communication in China

Sangwan, Sunanda - 2008

China s mobile communications market presents unique market challenges. With a high subscriber growth rate but polarized and stratified consumer adoption trends, an investigation into the current status of this market will improve our understanding on how adoption of mobile communications is...

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A model of international roaming regulation and competition in European mobile markets

Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2021

This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...

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The impact of RAN sharing

Ivaldi, Marc; Aimene, Louise; Jeanjean, Francois; … - 2021

In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of demand to analyse the equilibrium effect of the RAN sharing by using cross-country panel data in 28 EU countries in years 2010-2020. Based on model estimates, our simulation analysis in Spain firstly provides a quantitative...

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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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Competition and Regulation in China's 3G/4G Mobile Communications Industry - Institutions, Governance, and Telecom SOEs

Xia, Jun - 2015

regulatory imperatives in the Chinese telecommunications industry, currently there is no consistent pattern offered in the … China's SOE system in the telecommunications sector; and (3) original first attempt in identifying different roles of …'s formal and informal institutional environment in general and for telecommunications in particular. Measurements developed in …

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An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Demand in South Africa

Gasmi, Farid - 2009

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand-and-supply structural model based on a multinomial specification fitted to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find that consumers are very...

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