created in hopes of increasing competition. One example is the licensing of cellular telephone services in the United States … geographic markets. Taking advantage of the unique regulatory environment, we test to what degree duopolistic competition leads …

France Telecom (FT), SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT) have been fined by France's Conseil de la Concurrence (CC) for …-uniform market shares are explained by the costs in Cournot competition which can be deduced from the observed market shares by … assuming that the costs are kept the same when switching from Cournot competition to any form of cartel. We deduced that market …

In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate … hedonic price regressions using data on tariff plans offered by the main mobile telecommunications operator in France between …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the …

This paper studies competition in the German market for mobile telecommunications, motivated by recent suggestions that … they are disciplined by their smaller competitors' offerings. -- Wettbewerb ; Mobilfunk ; Telekommunikation ; kollektive …

mobile network investment in Germany, where access obligation had been implemented for the 3G technology (but not for 4G and … to common claims, our results show that access obligation has not lowered mobile network investment in Germany and indeed …

This paper develops a method to analyze the effects of competition policy in a network industry. Competition has mixed … Rwanda's decision to delay the introduction of competition. I show that there is a policy under which adding a competitor …

This paper evaluates whether competition hinders or spurs investment in a network industry. When a network is split … consumers and network operators, and consider Rwanda's decision to delay the introduction of competition. I show that there is a …

theory, competition authorities regulate the tying of Microsoft Windows with its Media Player or Internet browser in the EU … and Japan. The authorities also take note of the market power of mobile handset operating systems (OSs) over competition …