Mobile telecommunications and regulatory frameworks

Emerging Telecommunications Networks

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 151-179

  Gruber, Harald ^a,b   Valletti, Tommaso M ^c,d,e  

^a EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84896192153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781781950647.00017     Document Type: Chapter

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