Wholesale Markets in Telecommunications

Jerome Pouyet, Johan Hombert and Nicolas Schutz
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Marc Bourreau

No 6224, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: In telecommunications some operators have deployed their own networks whereas some others have not. The latter firms must purchase wholesale products from the former to be able to compete on the final market. We show that, even when network operators compete in prices and offer perfectly homogenous products on the wholesale market, that market may not be competitive. Based on our theoretical analysis, we derive some policy implications for the broadband and the mobile telephony markets.

Keywords: Telecommunications; Upstream and downstream markets; Vertical integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ind and nep-mic
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