Platform Competition in Telecommunications

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Platform Competition in Telecommunications

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Church, Jeffrey
Gandal, Neil

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Jeffrey Church

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In this Paper we consider the economics of platform competition in telecommunications. Platform competition occurs when different, sometimes incompatible, technologies compete to provide telecommunications services to end-users. Battles between competing technologies have been an important feature of telecommunications in the last twenty or so years. Examples of platform competition in telecommunications include wireless vs. wireline networks, competing wireless options, such as satellite vs. cellular, and, within cellular, different digital standards.

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Paper provided by C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers in its series CEPR Discussion Papers with number 4659.

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L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2005-02-13 (All new papers)
NEP-COM-2005-02-13 (Industrial Competition)
NEP-INO-2005-02-13 (Innovation)
NEP-MIC-2005-02-13 (Microeconomics)
NEP-NET-2005-02-13 (Network Economics)

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Juan D. Carrillo & Guofu Tan, 2006. "Platform Competition: The Role of Multi-homing and Complementors," Working Papers 06-30, NET Institute, revised Oct 2006. [Downloadable!]
Nicoletta Corrocher & Roberto Fontana, 2006. "Expectations, Network Effects and Timing of Technology Adoption: Some Empirical Evidence from a Sample of SMEs in Italy," SPRU Electronic Working Paper Series 150, University of Sussex, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research. [Downloadable!]
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- Nicoletta Corrocher & Roberto Fontana, 2008. "Expectations, network effects and timing of technology adoption: some empirical evidence from a sample of SMEs in Italy," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 31(4), pages 425-441, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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