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Antitrust Challenges in Telecommunications: Best Practices and Regulatory Approaches

This document explores key topics in telecommunications antitrust regulation, focusing on best practices and evolving regulatory approaches. It addresses essential regulatory issues such as spectrum management, interconnection, universal service, and access mandates for mobile networks. The paper delves into pricing regulations, including ex-ante pricing strategies, and examines competition concerns, consumer protection, and the interactions between mobile operators and value-added service suppliers. It highlights challenges like predatory pricing, margin squeezes, and the waterbed effect in two-sided markets.

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Antitrust Challenges in Telecommunications: Best Practices and Regulatory Approaches

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  1. Antitrust Economics 2013 David S. Evans University of Chicago, Global Economics Group Elisa Mariscal CIDE, Global Economics Group Topic 16: SELECTED TOPICS: Antitrust and telecommunications Topic 16| Part 1 16 January 2013 Date

  2. Overview

  3. Overview and Best Practices

  4. Regulatory Approaches

  5. Evolving Regulatory Approaches

  6. Reasons to Regulate

  7. 1) Spectrum Management

  8. 2) Interconnection and Call Termination

  9. 3) Universal Service and Coverage Requirements

  10. 4) Mandating Access to the Mobile Network by Other Providers

  11. Regulatory Institutions

  12. Regulation of Prices

  13. Regulation of Prices – Setting Ex-Ante Interconnection Prices

  14. Regulation of Prices – Cost Oriented Prices

  15. Regulation of Prices – Retail Minus Prices

  16. Value Added Services Regulation – Ex Ante Regulation

  17. Value Added Services Regulation – Ex Ante Regulation

  18. Two-Sided Markets and the “Waterbed” Effect in Telecommunications

  19. Two-Sided Markets and the “Waterbed” Effect in Telecommunications

  20. Two-Sided Markets and the “Waterbed” Effect in Telecommunications

  21. The Relations of the Mobile Operator

  22. The Relations Between the Mobile Operator and the VAS Supplier

  23. The Relations Between the Mobile Operator and the VAS Supplier

  24. The Relations Between the Mobile Operator and the VAS Supplier

  25. Relations Between the Mobile Operator and its Own Retail Arm/Services

  26. Consumer Relations/Consumer Protection Issues.Quality of service (QoS)

  27. Competition Issues

  28. Competition Abuses and Remedies

  29. Denial of Access / Refusal to Deal

  30. Denial of Access / Refusal to Deal

  31. Pricing and Discriminatory Abuses

  32. Excessive Prices

  33. Excessive Prices - Remedies

  34. Predatory Pricing

  35. Predatory Pricing

  36. A Margin Squeeze

  37. Upstream product Dominant Firm Wholesale price Firm 1 Competitor to Firm 1 Firm2 Downstream Arm p1 p2 Consumers A Margin Squeeze

  38. Price or Non-Price Discrimination

  39. Bundling and Tying

  40. Bundling and Tying

  41. End of Antitrust and Telecom, Next class Antitrust and Payments

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