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Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23747 Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community Campbell, Harold ichelp@gibs.co.za Hope, Mortimer UCTD Regulation Mobile communications Sadc South african development community Competition International roaming Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) experiences high levels of cross border human traffic due to trade, cultural and language links across the fifteen countries. Technological advances and increased domestic competition have contributed to lower domestic retail tariffs for mobile cellular services. Unfortunately, this has not extended to international mobile roaming (IMR) retail tariffs which remain unacceptably high. These high tariffs have attracted harsh criticism from commentators and prompted calls for regulatory intervention. This study investigates the level of international mobile roaming (IMR) retail tariffs, usage and demand elasticity. It further considers whether competition or regulation play a greater role in reducing these tariffs and whether regulatory intervention is likely to reduce competition. The research took the form of a quantitative study and used an online survey questionnaire as the data collection tool. The results of the study confirmed that international mobile roaming (IMR) retail tariffs are indeed high, resulting in poor uptake by cost conscious travellers who pay for their own cellular usage. The finding that competition plays a greater role than regulation in reducing IMR retail tariffs is not significant. It was concluded that neither competition nor regulation are sufficient on their own to provide increased social welfare. The best result is obtained when competition is allowed to flourish, underpinned by an enabling regulatory framework. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T15:51:14Z 2011-05-11 2013-09-06T15:51:14Z 2010-11-10 2010 2011-04-03 Dissertation Hope, M 2010, Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23747 > F11/105/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23747 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04032011-183943/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Regulation Mobile communications Sadc South african development community Competition International roaming Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title | Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title_full | Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title_fullStr | Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title_short | Regulation of international mobile roaming in the Southern African Development Community |
| title_sort | regulation of international mobile roaming in the southern african development community |
| topic | UCTD Regulation Mobile communications Sadc South african development community Competition International roaming |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23747 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04032011-183943/ |