Authors : Fatih Goral and Semra Karacaer
Abstract: Regulating and determining the mobile wholesale access prices or interconnection charges is one of the effective remedies of national authorities on SMP mobile network operators. This study endeavours to explain the use of asymmetric wholesale access pricing regulation by national telecom network regulators to eliminate inequalities between mobile operators that are caused by exogenous factors and try to guess the further price regulations of Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA) in Turkish mobile communications market. As the policy maker in European Union, the Commission recommends the use of symmetrical charges if there is not any justification that necessitates asymmetry. Hence, NRAs plan to implement symmetric wholesale prices for all of the operators after a transitory period of asymmetries. It is found that the trend of MTRs in Turkish mobile communications market indicates ICTA’s tendency to implement symmetrical interconnection charges in coming years parallel to European Commission recommendations.
Fatih Goral and Semra Karacaer, 2011. Determination of Asymmetric Wholesale Access Prices: Case of Turkish Mobile Communications Market. International Business Management, 5: 19-26.