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Mobile overtakes Fixed: Pricing and Billing
This page has been designed to provide some background information pricing and billing issues in a predominantly mobile world.  

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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

ACCC, Mobile number portability pricing principles

ACCC, Access pricing papers
OFTEL, Ramsey prices and the incentives of mobile operators. February 2002

MIC, Mobile phone industry to set up international data clearing house, August 2002

Academic Resources

On the receivers pay principle, Do-Shin Jeon/ Jean-Jaques Laffont/ Jean Tirole

Related Material

OECD, Cellular mobile pricing structures and trends

UMTS Forum, Charging, billing, and payment views on 3G business models, July 2002

GSM World, Billing standards

Europe Economics, Cost structures in mobile networks and their relationship to prices

European Universal Service Atlas, Call charges to mobile phones at peak time - 11:00 weekdays

Qualcomm, The economics of wireless mobile data

Fixed-mobile substitution: a simultaneous equation model with qualitative and limited dependent variables, Horváth, Réka, DotEcon Ltd, London, UK, Maldoom, Daniel, DotEcon Ltd, London, UK, ITS Europe 2002
ITU Resources
ITU Internet Report 2002: Internet for a mobile generation

New Initiatives Workshop 'Licensing policy for 3G mobile'

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

 

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