Mobile Phones: Pricing Structures and Trends [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,publisher.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
Mobile communications is one of the tremendous success stories of the telecommunications industry. By June 1999, there were 293 million mobile subscribers in the OECD area, or around one mobile phone for every four inhabitants. Current growth continues to exceed most past projections. The benefits wrought by mobility in communications are increasingly evident in terms of both economic and social development. If there is a caveat, amidst such a tremendous success story, it is that the very rapid growth of mobile communications has tended to conceal large performance differences across the OECD area. There is an ongoing need to examine performance against fast moving international benchmarks. Without such analysis the challenges to mobile communications meeting wider policy goals, in relation to electronic commerce and local infrastructure competition, will remain impervious to critical review. In addition, high growth rates have tended to mask some problem areas where there has been insufficient price competition. In many countries, the mobile communications sector has been successfully used to pioneer liberalisation. Nevertheless, it is incumbent on policy makers to continually review regulatory frameworks. This book highlights a number of areas for policy review and decision.
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""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Boxes""; ""Box 1. Select glossary of mobile terms""; ""Box 2. Finland: mobile penetration update""; ""Box 3. European Union mobile licensing""; ""Box 4. Key cellular mobile policy initiatives in Japan""; ""Box 5. Receiving party pays regulatory update""; ""Box 6. Removing regulatory barriers to CPP""; ""Box 7. Mobile traffic and revenue patterns in Spain""; ""Box 8. European Commission investigations of pricing between fixed and mobile networks""; ""Box 9. Pre-paid card use in Sweden""; ""Box 10. Lock-in""; ""Box 11. SMS messaging and â€œhz.comâ€?""
""Figures""""Figure 1. Rolling three-year average growth rates in different market structures""; ""Figure 2. OECD mobile basket prices time series""; ""Figure 3. BT fixed network to mobile network""; ""Figure 4. Fixed to mobile network prices and penetration""; ""Colour Supplement""; ""Mobile subscriber growth""; ""Mobile penetration in the OECD area""; ""Liberalisation has fundamentally changed the market structures for mobile communications""; ""Liberalisation correlates with higher growth rates in mobile penetration""; ""Cellular prices are falling""; ""Who pays for a mobile call?""
""Calling opportunities""""Calling opportunities in Finland""; ""Calling party pays, receiving party pays and growth rates""; ""Pre-paid share of subscribers for selected European operators""; ""CPP experience in Mexico""; ""Are fixed-to-mobile termination rates cost oriented?""; ""Price of roaming""; ""Selected pre-paid card prices""; ""Short message service (SMS) pricing in the OECD area""; ""Statistical Annex""; ""Table 1. Pre-paid users in selected Europe mobile operators, June 1999""; ""Table 2. Mobile cellular subscribers in OECD countries""
""Table 3. Mobile subscribers per 100 inhabitants in OECD countries""""Table 4. Mobile subscriber increase per 100 inhabitants per annum, 1991-99""; ""Table 5. Number of mobile operator equivalents in OECD countries""; ""Table 6. OECD mobile subscriber penetration rankings, 1990-June 1999""; ""Table 7. Personal basket of digital cellular service, August 1999""; ""Table 8. Business basket for digital mobile service""; ""Table 9. INTUG Survey of European roaming prices, 1999""; ""Table 10. Fixed network pricing in Denmark, July 1999""; ""Table 11. Comparison between CPP and RPP""
""Table 12. Mobile subscribers as a percentage of access lines""""Table 13. Cellular mobile growth in Mexico""; ""Table 14. Network calling opportunities in OECD area""; ""Table 15. Price of calls between fixed and mobile networks""; ""Table 16. Interconnection charges between fixed and mobile networks in OECD countries, January 1999""; ""Table 17. Mobile pricing and service innovation""; ""Table 18. Pre-paid card pricing in OECD countries""; ""Table 19. Selected mobile card conditions and duration""; ""Table 20. SMS growth in Europe""
""Table 21. Short message service (SMS) pricing in OECD countries""
Mobile communications is one of the tremendous success stories of the telecommunications industry. By June 1999, there were 293 million mobile subscribers in the OECD area, or around one mobile phone for every four inhabitants. Current growth continues to exceed most past projections. The benefits wrought by mobility in communications are increasingly evident in terms of both economic and social development. If there is a caveat, amidst such a tremendous success story, it is that the very rapid growth of mobile communications has tended to conceal large performance differences across the OECD area. There is an ongoing need to examine performance against fast moving international benchmarks. Without such analysis the challenges to mobile communications meeting wider policy goals, in relation to electronic commerce and local infrastructure competition, will remain impervious to critical review. In addition, high growth rates have tended to mask some problem areas where there has been insufficient price competition. In many countries, the mobile communications sector has been successfully used to pioneer liberalisation. Nevertheless, it is incumbent on policy makers to continually review regulatory frameworks. This book highlights a number of areas for policy review and decision.
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