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Area of Science:

  • Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Network Industries

Background:

  • Competition policy significantly influences market dynamics and investment in network industries.
  • Network effects are crucial but can be internalized differently when networks are split among competitors.
  • Understanding consumer utility and operator investment is key to analyzing policy impacts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze how competition policy affects welfare and investment in the mobile network industry.
  • To structurally estimate consumer utility and simulate market equilibrium under different policy scenarios.
  • To quantify the welfare impact of introducing competition and interconnection policies.

Main Methods:

  • Structural estimation of consumer utility for mobile phone adoption and usage.
  • Utilizing transaction data from a near-complete national mobile network.
  • Simulation of equilibrium choices for consumers and network operators.

Main Results:

  • Introducing a competitor earlier could have reduced prices and increased rural tower investment.
  • Simulations indicate a potential welfare increase equivalent to 1% of GDP with earlier competition.
  • Mandating free interconnection was found to potentially decrease operator investment incentives.

Conclusions:

  • Early competition in mobile networks can enhance welfare and rural infrastructure development.
  • The design of interconnection policies is critical to balance competition and investment.
  • Policy interventions require careful consideration of their impact on both consumer welfare and industry investment.