In this comment, we primarily address the first question asked by the Commission (“The state of antitrust and consumer protection law and enforcement, and their development, since the Pitofsky hearings”). However, our comments also speak to several other questions. We do so in part through...

The most striking feature of South Africa's mobile market is the skewed allocation of spectrum and a seemingly endless sequence of failed attempts to hold an auction. A shortage of spectrum (or, inefficient assignment of it) is blamed for South Africa's relatively slow LTE speeds, among other...

A substantial literature on multisided markets – markets with multiple distinct groups of consumers who care about the extent of participation of other groups in the market – has developed over the past decade. This literature has not given substantial consideration to a critical...

Two mobile service pricing frameworks have developed around the world, calling party pays (CPP) and mobile party pays (MPP). With CPP, a wireline customer is billed for placing a call to a mobile phone, and there is no charge to the mobile customer for receiving the call. The mobile customer is...