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Quality-adjusted international price comparisons of mobile telecommunications services

机译:经质量调整的移动电信服务国际价格比较

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Many countries' policymakers have conducted international price comparisons of mobile telecommunications services to prevent service operators from overcharging subscribers. However, those comparisons have become more complicated because of the escalation in service usage and telecommunications expenditures spurred by the proliferation of smartphones and broadband LTE wireless internet service networks. The basket-based methodologies that have been widely used for international price comparisons are also limited-first, because the baskets for comparison may not be representative of actual service usage patterns in some countries; second, because they are difficult to apply to highly differentiated service plans due to the significant increase in wireless internet service usage and widely used plans with unlimited voice call service and SMS/MMS; and third, because they cannot consider the quality of service, such as upload and download speed in various service environments, at all. As an alternative, this paper proposes a hedonic pricing model that accounts for service quality and its variation in potentially disruptive environments, as well as fixed charge for a mobile phone additional to the price of service plans. The model was used to derive quality-adjusted price indices of mobile telecommunications services for twelve cities in ten countries with broadband LTE wireless internet service. The empirical results confirmed that the price index of each city varied significantly across the specifications,-both within the United States and internationally-depending on whether the model was constructed to reflect service quality and its variation on roads, in buildings, and in subways. The price index of each city also varied depending on whether the subsidized price of a mobile phone was considered part of the monthly price of a service plan. These results have important implications for policymakers seeking to understand the ultimate level of mobile telecommunication service prices for their country in a global context.
机译:许多国家的政策制定者已经对移动电信服务进行了国际价格比较,以防止服务运营商向订户收取过多费用。但是,由于智能手机和宽带LTE无线互联网服务网络的激增刺激了服务使用和电信支出的增长,这些比较变得更加复杂。广泛用于国际价格比较的基于篮子的方法学也首先受到限制,因为用于比较的篮子可能无法代表某些国家的实际服务使用模式。其次,由于无线互联网服务使用的显着增加以及具有无限语音呼叫服务和SMS / MMS的广泛使用的计划,它们难以应用于高度差异化的服务计划;第三,因为他们根本无法考虑服务质量,例如各种服务环境中的上载和下载速度。作为替代方案,本文提出了享乐定价模型,该模型考虑了服务质量及其在潜在破坏性环境中的变化,以及除服务计划价格外的移动电话固定费用。该模型用于推导使用宽带LTE无线互联网服务的十个国家中的十二个城市的移动电信服务的质量调整后价格指数。实证结果证实,在美国和国际上,每个城市的价格指数在整个规范中差异很大,这取决于模型是否构建为反映服务质量及其在道路,建筑物和地铁中的变化。每个城市的价格指数还取决于是否将移动电话的补贴价格视为服务计划每月价格的一部分。这些结果对寻求了解全球范围内本国移动电信服务价格最终水平的决策者具有重要意义。

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