Some Comments on "Tackling Partial Non-Spots in Mobile Phone Coverage"
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Dante Quaglione writes in response to a consultation document published by the UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport on November 5, 2014, to stimulate further discussion on aspects that, while directly or indirectly affected by the proposals, seem to have been overlooked.
His comments focus on national roaming in partial not-spot areas. Generally speaking, there are concerns that in highly dynamic and innovative contexts, in which network operators, to a large extent, employ innovation-based competition strategies, an obligation to provide national roaming may unlevel the playing field, undermine investment incentives, be detrimental to innovation (in particular, service differentiation) and trigger dynamic inefficiency.
In particular, his concerns relate to the:
- need for national roaming regulations and possible conflict with network operators’ commercial strategies
- existence of alternative, less-intrusive and non-distorting, regulatory remedies
- uncertainty on the criteria to measure the “efficiently incurred reasonable costs”
- impact of the proposal on the incentives to invest
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