Impact of roaming regulation on revenues and prices of mobile operators in the EU

Lukasz Grzybowski, Ángela Muñoz-Acevedo

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during the latest phase of the regulation.

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Year of publication:	August 2021
Authors:	Grzybowski, Lukasz ; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela
Publisher:	Munich, Germany : CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute
Subject:	roaming \| mobile telecommunications \| regulation \| Mobilkommunikation \| Mobile communications \| Regulierung \| Regulation \| Telekommunikationspreis \| Telecommunications price \| Telekommunikationspolitik \| Telecommunications policy \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Netzregulierung \| Access regulation \| Preisregulierung \| Price regulation