The economics of mobile telecommunications

The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-323

  Gruber, Harald ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK   (Luxembourg)

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EID: 84928269314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511493256     Document Type: Book

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