Technical innovation to overcome regulation - use case: Terminating fees in mobile communication

Author

Kastell, K.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Frankfurt Univ. of Appl. Sci., Frankfurt, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 June 2010

Firstpage

806

Lastpage

811

Abstract

Regulation is an issue controversial discussed among economists themselves and the companies affected by regulatory policies. But regulation and technical innovation, even if it is temporarily causing a dominant market position, do not have to be oppositional things. This paper aims to show incentives how companies could be pushed to implement technical innovation as a means to overcome regulatory restrictions. This is shown using the example of regulated terminating fees in mobile communication and how inter-provider Handover can lead to contestable markets.

Keywords

mobile communication; mobile communication; regulation; regulatory policies; regulatory restrictions; terminating fees; 4G mobile communication; Availability; Communication networks; Computer science; Investments; Mobile communication; Monopoly; Next generation networking; Technological innovation; Telecommunication network reliability; Inter-provider handover; regulation policy; secure communication; terminating fee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6565-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6566-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2010.5492793

Filename

5492793