tailieunhanh - The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications (2005)

This book distils years of work on the mobile telecommunications industry. I became interested in this industry for professional reasons during the mid-1990s, a period when the industry was making the jump from a premium service industry for mostly professional users to a truly mass market. In my capacity as an applied industrial organisation economist, I had the unique opportunity of evaluating the business plans and strategies of a large number of mobile telecommunications firms inside and outside Europe. This provided me with valuable insights into the functioning of this fascinating industry, as well as into its technological and operational concerns | More than 150 000 articles in the search database Learn how almost everything works Harald Gruber The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications CAMBRIDGE Cambridge TEAM LinG mere information - 4í92H Ị521Ễ4ỉ270 The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications The mobile telecommunications industry is one of the most rapidly growing sectors around the world. This book offers a comprehensive economic analysis of the main determinants of growth in the industry. Harald Gruber demonstrates the importance of competitive entry and the setting of technological standards both of which play a central role in the fast diffusion of technology. Detailed country studies provide empirical evidence for the development of the main themes the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services the pricing policies in network industries the role of entry barriers such as radio spectrum and spectrum allocation procedures. This research-based survey will appeal to a wide range of applied industrial economists within universities government and the industry itself. HARALD GRUBER is Deputy Economic Advisor at the European Investment Bank Luxembourg where he is responsible for project appraisal and sector studies in the information and telecommunications sectors. He has published extensively in refereed economics and industrial organisation journals and is author of Learning and Strategic Product Innovation Theory and Evidence for the Semiconductor Industry 1994 . TEAM .