Author name:
راجي محيل هليل الخفاجي
Supervisor name:
عبد الستار عبد الجبار موسى
Abstract:
The mobile phone companies in all over the world are mostly distinguished by their limitid number, mutual relations, trading with rival companies in other countries, and while some of them working together in developed markets, others work in the emerging markets which are in the early stages of growth and spread.The pricing decisions and some other decisions, despite those differences mentioned above, are taken by those companies according to governments regulations related to organizing the olegopoly markets work.As a result, those decisions are usually characterized by being strategic in their behavior and in their direction to enhance the companies bargaining power against consumers, to control the prices, and market shares, especially when those companies agreed implicitly to control the prices and the market shares.This dissertation aimed to study pricing systems in the various countries, and analyzing the nature of the pricing prevailing strategies in the mobile markets in selected developed countries from (OECD), which both France, Switzerland, and some of the developing countries, which both Egypt, India, with particular reference to the case of Iraq, and compare its mobile services prices with some of the neighboring countries, based on Microeconomic, game theory application ,and Nash bargaining solution.Also, this dissertation was drafted a proposed model for the mobile services pricing, that can provide the minimum necessary calls minutes prices, which commensurate with the gross national income per capita, or with the poverty level line, that can be applied in practice, not only in Iraq, but in different developing countries.These services, which became a necessity basic for progress, prosperity, and an important pillar in the process of sustainable development, poverty fighting, and make it available had became a legitimate right, that guaranteed by the state, and it is an important basic need, of an individual or family requirements, especially, in the current situation in Iraq, which Wired telephone service significantly deteriorated, and there is no suitable efficient alternative, but only mobile services, which are private sector companies owned, and there is no competitor in the public sector.The government task is find a balance between allowing monopoly companies to cover its costs, with a profit margin, and not allow those companies to impose monopolistic price, which expands the size of the lost loss, and lower the level of welfare.In order to achieve the objectives of dissertation, it has been divided into three chapters, the first included theoretical economic framework, while the second chapter has included the trends of mobile services pricing in selected countries as described above, and third chapter included the recent economic directions of the mobile services pricing in Iraq.Finally, the dissertation has reached a number of conclusions, The most important one is, that the efficient, transparent government regulation for the mobile phone licenses rounds management, and the reduction of taxes, and fees that impose on mobile phone companies, will lead to increased spread, reduce prices, and increase the level of social welfare
