The dramatic worldwide increase in mobile communication that has led to more than 4
billion users has over the last few years been accompanied in wealthy countries by a …

This paper surveys the recent literature on competition between mobile networks in the
presence of call externalities and network effects. It argues that the regulation of mobile …

Living standards and economic growth in developing countries are invariably linked to the
availability and use of telecom services. Effective policy decisions require the best estimates …

The remarkable development of Japan's broadband (BB) market has attracted attention
worldwide. This paper is one of the first to analyze Japan's BB demand (including FTTH) …

3. Economic Conditions of Local Network Competition 3.1. Defining local services and
markets 3.2. Demand for local network services 3.3. Cost of local service and technical …

This paper uses data from nationally representative household surveys conducted in 17
African countries to analyse mobile adoption and usage. The paper shows that countries …

This Paper estimates an equilibrium oligopoly model of horizontal product differentiation
where firms compete in non-linear tariffs. The estimation explicitly incorporates the …

3.2. Scale economics 3.3. Network externalities 3.4. Third degree price discrimination 3.5.
Second degree price discrimination 4. Positive Economies of Universal Service 4.1. Cross …

Worldwide telecommunications demand is estimated in models for business and residential
mainline telephone, and for mobile telephone service using separate models for developed …

Adding the 2000 decennial census data to our pooled logit model results in much stronger
evidence that targeted subsidy programs to add poor households to the network are …