Should mobile subscription be subsidised in mature markets?

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 294-306

  Albon, Rob ^a   York, Richard ^a  

^a Australian Competition and Consumer Commission   (Australia)

Author keywords

2G; 3G; Average revenue per user (ARPU); Call receipt externality; Churn; Fixed to mobile (FTM); Handset subsidy; Marginal social benefit; Market failure; Mobile network operator (MNO); Mobile termination; Mobile termination rate (MTR); Natural saturation; Network externalities; Network externality surcharge; Penetration; Pigouvian subsidy; Post paid subscription; Potential pareto criterion; Pre paid subscription; Reciprocal externality; Regulatory intervention; Subscriber identity module (SIM); Tslric

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MARKETING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

AVERAGE REVENUE PER USER (ARPU); MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR (MNO); MOBILE TERMINATION RATE (MTR); NETWORK EXTERNALITY SURCHARGE; POTENTIAL PARETO CRITERION; REGULATORY INTERVENTION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 42749093423     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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