IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/idt/journl/cs9302.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Mobile Wireless Performance in the EU and the US: Implications for Policy

Author

Listed:
  • Erik BOHLIN

    (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

  • Kevin W. CAVES

    (Economists Incorporated, Washington D.C., USA)

  • Jeffrey A. EISENACH

    (NERA Economic Consulting; George Mason University Law School, Arlington, VA, USA)

Abstract

As recently as five years ago, markets for mobile wireless services in Europe were performing on par with, or even better than, markets in the United States. Today, there is broad agreement that the EU has fallen behind in at least some dimensions, especially with respect to the deployment of next generation LTE networks. We assess the divergence in performance, analyze its causes, and suggest policy changes that would improve the performance of mobile wireless markets going forward. These include regulatory harmonization of spectrum management, achieving efficient levels of consolidation, and promoting investment and innovation through a focus on dynamic competition.

Suggested Citation

  • Erik BOHLIN & Kevin W. CAVES & Jeffrey A. EISENACH, 2014. "Mobile Wireless Performance in the EU and the US: Implications for Policy," Communications & Strategies, IDATE, Com&Strat dept., vol. 1(93), pages 35-58, 1st quart.
    • Handle: RePEc:idt:journl:cs9302
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://repec.idate.org/RePEc/idt/journl/CS9302/CS93_BOHLIN_et_al.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Johannes Bauer & Erik Bohlin, 2008. "From Static to Dynamic Regulation," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics;Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), vol. 43(1), pages 38-50, January.
    2. Ehrlich Everett M. & Eisenach Jeffrey A. & Leighton Wayne A., 2010. "The Impact of Regulation on Innovation and Choice in Wireless Communications," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 9(1), pages 1-51, February.
    3. Cricelli, Livio & Grimaldi, Michele & Levialdi Ghiron, Nathan, 2012. "The impact of regulating mobile termination rates and MNO–MVNO relationships on retail prices," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 1-12.
    4. Robert D. Atkinson & David B. Audretsch, 2010. "Economic Doctrines and Innovation Policy," Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, MIT Press, vol. 5(1), pages 163-206, January.
    5. Timothy J. Tardiff & Dennis L. Weisman, 2009. "The Dominant Firm Revisited," Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 5(3), pages 517-536.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Karamti, Chiraz, 2019. "Lopsided effects of telecom reforms on mobile markets in the enlarged EU: Evidence from dynamic quantile model," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(3), pages 238-261.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bauer, Johannes M., 2014. "Platforms, systems competition, and innovation: Reassessing the foundations of communications policy," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(8), pages 662-673.
    2. Franziska Piontek & Matthias Kalkuhl & Elmar Kriegler & Anselm Schultes & Marian Leimbach & Ottmar Edenhofer & Nico Bauer, 2019. "Economic Growth Effects of Alternative Climate Change Impact Channels in Economic Modeling," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 73(4), pages 1357-1385, August.
    3. Massaro, Maria & Pogorel, Gérard, 2015. "Next generation of radio spectrum management licensed shared access and the trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency," 2015 Regional ITS Conference, Los Angeles 2015 146322, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    4. Krancke, Jan & Vidal, Miguel & Fier, Andreas, 2012. "Changing the rules: Applying a more economic approach to dynamic telecom markets," 23rd European Regional ITS Conference, Vienna 2012 66976, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    5. Pelkmans, Jacques & Renda, Andrea, 2014. "Does EU regulation hinder or stimulate innovation?," CEPS Papers 9822, Centre for European Policy Studies.
    6. Bauer, Johannes M. & Shim, Woohyun, 2012. "Regulation and digital innovation: Theory and evidence," 23rd European Regional ITS Conference, Vienna 2012 60364, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    7. Wasapon Thanabodypath & Achara Chandrachai & Sudkate Chaiyo & Orawon Chailapakul, 2021. "Industrial Buyer Innovation Adoption Model: A Focus on a Smartphone-Based Electrochemical Analytical Device for Toxic Heavy Metal Detection," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-21, October.
    8. François Jeanjean & Julienne Liang, 2012. "Role of access charges in the migration from copper to FTTH," International Journal of Management and Network Economics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 2(3), pages 298-317.
    9. David Audretsch & Albert Link, 2012. "Entrepreneurship and innovation: public policy frameworks," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 1-17, February.
    10. Jan Krancke & Christoph Müller, 2011. "Innovationen in regulierten Netzindustrien," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 63(64), pages 32-51, January.
    11. Upender Subramanian & Jagmohan S. Raju & Z. John Zhang, 2013. "Exclusive Handset Arrangements in the Wireless Industry: A Competitive Analysis," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 32(2), pages 246-270, March.
    12. Bauer, Johannes M., 2022. "Toward new guardrails for the information society," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(5).
    13. Daigyo Seo & Allen Featherstone & Dennis Weisman & Yuan Gao, 2010. "Market Consolidation and Productivity Growth in U.S. Wireline Telecommunications: Stochastic Frontier Analysis vs. Malmquist Index," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 36(3), pages 271-294, May.
    14. Son, Pham Hai & Son, Le Hoang & Jha, Sudan & Kumar, Raghvendra & Chatterjee, Jyotir Moy, 2019. "Governing mobile Virtual Network Operators in developing countries," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 169-180.
    15. Thomas Hazlett & Dennis Weisman, 2011. "Market Power in US Broadband Services," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 38(2), pages 151-171, March.
    16. Eichberger, Jürgen & Mueller-Langer, Frank, 2012. "On the Welfare Effects of Exclusive Distribution Arrangements," MPRA Paper 39691, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    17. Jeanjean, François, 2012. "Incentive to invest in improving the quality in telecommunication industry," 23rd European Regional ITS Conference, Vienna 2012 60375, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    18. Sumit K. Majumdar, 2011. "Cross Subsidization And Telecommunications Sector Wages," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 82(1), pages 1-24, March.
    19. Hitoshi Mitomo & Hidenori Fuke & Erik Bohlin (ed.), 2015. "The Smart Revolution Towards the Sustainable Digital Society," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 16020.
    20. Dmitrii Trubnikov, 2020. "The Russian Telecommunications Experience: a Positive Outcome of the Competitive Order in the Industry," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 35-58, March.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    spectrum management; performance; ecosystem; dynamic competition; wireless markets.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • L4 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:idt:journl:cs9302. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: BLAVIER Thomas (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/idatefr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.