This paper analyzes a price squeeze case in the provision of telecommunication services to the Italian Public Administration, in which Telecom Italia, the incumbent company, was condemned for bidding below costs. We develop the analysis of the case highlighting the possible anticompetitive story...

Sir, Iraq is not Vietnam. Different times, different places and different geopolitics. Yet both whisper a warning about the difficulties of taming developing nations that defy our values and views of social progress: the cost may be too high

The telecommunication firms operate on the basis of acquisition of airwave space, which is licensed by the government. The usual policy practice in this regard is ascending auction that ensures maximization of revenue for the government. The established view in the literature is that the...

Djibouti is very well placed, as a landing site of undersea fiber optic cables, to benefit from the digital economy. However, the prevalence of a single national telecom operator in the country has stifled service delivery and innovation in the telecom sector. Mobile broadband coverage and...

India presently faces the challenge of achieving financial inclusion, with the banking system estimated to be covering only 400 million of India's population of 1.2 billion. As per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, current users of the banking system are largely in urban areas. An important...