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"Demand for mobile services continues to grow rapidly and the number of mobile subscribers in the world exceeded the number of fixed lines for the first time in 2003. The mobile industry that has provided this growth is a competitive one in which the suppliers are largely unregulated. But, as the mobile industry grows in size and economic importance, so it attracts more regulatory attention. In the past few years we have seen regulators implement measures to regulate mobile termination rates, to mandate number portability, to require open access for independent service providers, and even to control the retail price of mobile services. In the next few years we might see regulation of roaming services, use of competition law to control the behaviour of mobile operators and perhaps requirements for dominant fixed operators to divest themselves of their mobile subsidiaries.
In this report we: identify the latest developments in the regulation of mobile operators analyse the rationale for and against such regulation
suggest how mobile regulation might develop so as to maximise public welfare." |
