Comparative Analysis of Spectrum Policy and Mobile Market Structure
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Master's thesis
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2013-08-30
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Communications Ecosystem
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TLT
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TLT - Master’s Programme in Communications Ecosystem
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en
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VIII+65
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Differences in the regulatory framework create specific path dependencies in per mobile market. Correspondingly, there is a need to assess how the mobile markets differ till now as well as the direction of the market evolution in the future. Therefore the systematic assessment of the mobile markets will present the insight of the market dynamics along with rising opportunity to make comparison between multiple mobile markets. As a part of research methodology, we first perform theoretical review regarding the previous research on the analysis of mobile market structures. We observe that most of the research focuses on either the analysis of a single market parameter for multiple mobile markets or comparison of two markets for a set of parameters in a qualitative or quantitative way. In contrast with above we take a systematic approach by taking a set of parameters for multiple mobile markets. We complete our analysis by investigating the market characteristics from spectrum policy and market structure point of view. Based on the evaluation, we assess the state-of- art outlook of the selected mobile markets: Finland, Chile, Turkey, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, United States, Japan and Sweden. Based on our results, we assess that Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index is the explaining factor for the spectrum policy. In this regards, India possesses the most decentralized where China has the most centralized mobile spectrum. Market structure analysis put forward both mobile prices and investments per subscribers as the explaining factor for the market structure. Based on that, India is the most open mobile market where Japan has the most closed mobile market structure. European markets; Finland, Sweden and U.K. have more open market structure than the North American mobile market.Description
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Hämmäinen, HeikkiThesis advisor
Hämmäinen, HeikkiKeywords
mobile market structure, spectrum policy, metric analysis