Telecommunications Market Evolution

Analysis of Mobile Telecommunications Market in Thailand

After the first allocation of spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band was successfully made, Thailand has experienced significant changes in the telecommunications industry, especially positive effects on the overall economic condition. The opening up of 3G/4G services on the 2.1 GHz spectrum by the licensed operators as well as the widespread use of mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers fa...

Critical Mass and Network Evolution in Telecommunications

Network goods exhibit positive consumption externalities, commonly known as "network externalities." In markets, this fact can give rise to the existence of a critical mass point, that is, a minimum network size that can be sustained in equilibrium, given the cost and market structure of the industry. In this paper, we describe the conditions under which a critical mass point exists for a netwo...

Analyzing Telecommunications Market Competition: Foundations for Best Practices

Competition is an increasingly important theme in telecommunications policy. It has been credited with expanding services, lowering prices, and stimulating innovation. (Jamison et al. 2009) But competition can raise difficult challenges for telecommunications policy makers and regulators. One of these challenges is determining the optimal mix of market and regulatory involvement in determinatio...

An optimal smart market for the pricing of telecommunications services

The internet uses today a service model called “best effort”; that is, the network allocates bandwidth among all instantaneous users as best it caan, attempting to serve all of them without making any explicit committment as to routing or any other service quality. Indeed, some traffic may be dropped. When congestion occurs, the users are expected to detect this, and slow down their transmissio...

Identification of churn routes in the Brazilian telecommunications market