– What is guaranteed to happen is that they are going to use his position to milk customers further, says Nalbant NRK.
Nadir Nalbant has started and run a variety of mobile phone companies, and says that it must much more powerful lye and commitment from consumer authorities in order to be paving the way for competition.
He is founder of Hello, who is one of few standalone mobile operators, called virtual operators in the Norwegian market. That they owned neither of Netcom or Telenor, but rents net of one of the two giants. In Hellos case of Telenor.
After TeliaSonera had approved its acquisition of Tele2 Thursday, he is concerned over developments in the Norwegian mobile market. Nalbant believe we now have a duopoly in Norway – that the market is governed solely by these two giants. He believes that it is going to go beyond consumers.
– They’re going to take up better paid, because they share the market among themselves. It is as if we should have had two banks in Norway, who to share the market among themselves. One can imagine how it would have gone with interest rates, he said.
– Takes a long time to build a new network
TeliaSonera had to relinquish his important frequencies to and conclude agreements, allowing a third mobile operator, ICE, can develop and create more competition. Nalbant hope ICE will succeed to get started, but says that it will take a long time to build a new network.
Therefore, he that the authorities should be clear on what price the virtual operators should pay for web access and ensure the same conditions as Telenor or NetCom.
Telephony Analyst Tore Aarønæs says to NRK that there are many who believe that mobile prices in Norway are lower after Tele2 acquisition. Photo: Press photo
– competition should be about ready to appeal to customers, so getting the infrastructure be available to all – to the same conditions. Then I think you can get a real free competition in the market, he said.
– The market is like a monopoly game
Tore Aarønæs, telecommunications analyst at Norwegian Telecom, rather think not that it becomes low prices and increased competition in a while after the acquisition.
– The market is like a monopoly game where all the streets are acquired by Telenor and NetCom, and they have built both houses and hotels . So when ICE will go into this game, so they begin with “jerk forward to start and receive NOK 2000,” he said.
Aarønæs believes it is important that ICE receives good opportunities for to get into this game.
– If we get a concentration of market power in Telenor and NetCom, so there are not many who believe that it will provide lower prices, he adds.
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