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Mobile overtakes fixed: Interconnection
This page has been designed to provide some background information on interconnection with mobiles.  

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Other online resources:
Interconnection
International roaming
Pricing and billing
Competition in mobile markets
Licensing and spectrum policy
Mobile data communications
Consumer protection and privacy

Regulatory Material

European Commission

ACCC, Pricing methodology for the GSM and CDMA terminating services – Final Report

OFTEL, Mobile termination charge control and the treatment of ported numbers, November 2002

OFTEL, Termination of off-net mobile to mobile calls, May 2002

Academic Resources

Regulatory concepts for fixed-to-fixed and fixed-to-mobile interconnection rates in the European Union, Freund, Natascha, Telekom Austria AG
Ruhle, Olav, 3G Mobile Telecommunications GmbH, Austria, ITS Europe 2002

Efficient pricing with cross-elasticities, network externalities and a budget constraint with application to termination charges of mobile telecommunication operators, Rohlfs, Jeffrey, Strategic Policy Research, Maryland, USA, ITS Europe 2002

Internet interconnection economic model and its analysis: peering and settlement, Martin B. Weiss/ Seung Jae Shin

Internet interconnection and off-net-cost pricing principles, Jean-Jaques Laffont/ Scott Marcus/ Patrick Rey/ Jean Tirole

Related Material

Call termination tariffs, European Interconnect Atlas

INTUG, Termination of international calls to mobile networks, Submission by INTUG to ITU-T SG3

ITU Resources
ITU Internet Report 2002: Internet for a mobile generation
New Initiatives Workshop 'Fixed-mobile interconnection'

ITU-T Study Group 3, Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues

Background Paper: "Mobile Overtakes Fixed: Implications for Policy and Regulation", ITU 2003,

 

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