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Infrapont has long-standing consultancy experience in the telecom sector starting from the very beginning of the liberalisation. By supporting the government, the regulator and market players we have covered a wide range of issues from company or industrial strategy, through regulation, auction design and entry assistance, to network sharing agreements. Infrapont is committed to the approach that the competition and regulatory issues of the sector must be based on empirically and methodologically sound economic thinking. We give the best to our clients in many fields like strategic or regulatory market analysis, business and regulatory modelling, business or policy impact analysis, business planning and enhanced market research in all market segments.

  • For government institutions

    • Participation in the preparation of:
      • 3.6 GHz spectrum tender (2016)
      • 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum tender for broadband services (2014)
      • 900 Mhz spectrum auction (2012)
      • UMTS 2100 MHz tender (2004)
      • DCS 1800 MHz tender (1999)
      • The implementation of the Better Regulation and the Citizens Directive under the New Regulatory Framework (2010)
      • The Electronic Communications Acts of 2003
      • The Communications Acts of 2001
    • Consultancy in preparation of industry strategies and impact analysis of the new legislations
    • Examination of Universal Service and the Issue of Affordability in Different Sectors (2000)

  • For sectoral and competition regulatory institutions

  • For market players

    • Strategic market analysis
    • Business planning
    • Regulatory strategy
    • Creating and evaluating a business plan
    • Business modelling for strategic planning
    • Market entry strategy
    • Product any service development, examination of technical, economic, market and regulatory impacts
    • Competitive assessment, competitive strategy
    • Competition cases
    • Expert support in legal disputes
Pápai, Z. – McLean, A. – Nagy, P. – Szabó, G. – Csorba, G.: The impact of network sharing on competition: the challenges posed by early versus mature 5G, CERS-IE Working Paper – 2020/33 July 2020; presentation based on the paper: ITS Conference Online Event, 14-17 June 2020.
Pápai, Z – Csorba, G. – Nagy, P. – McLean, A.: Competition Policy Issues in Mobile Network Sharing: A European Perspective, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (in English)
Pápai, Z. – McLean, A. – Csorba, G. – Nagy, P.: Economising on network provision while preserving competition: the challenges of 5G mobile network sharing, Conference paper and presentation at the 30th ITS European Conference, Espoo, Finland, 16-19 June 2019. (in English)
Pápai, Z. – Csorba, G. – Nagy, P. – McLean, A.: Competition policy issues in mobile network sharing: a European perspective, Discussion papers MT-DP – 2018/28, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (October 2018) (in English); presentations based on the paper: 29th ITS European Conference, Trento, 1-3 August 2018, and MaCCI Annual Conference 2019 Mannheim. (in English)
Infrapont Report: Large-Screen Mobile Broadband Prices in the EU, 2017. (Abstract in English)
Nagy, P. – Pápai, Z. – McLean, A. – Papp, B.: In search of lost mobile internet: The reasons behind low Hungarian mobile broadband penetration, In: Competition and Regulation 2016. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L. – Nagy, Cs. I., 2016 (in Hungarian)
Pápai, Z.: Benchmarking large-screen mobile broadband prices, Conference presentation at the 27th European Regional ITS Conference, Cambridge, 7-9 September 2016 (in English)
Csorba, G. – Pápai, Z.: Does one more or one less mobile operator affect prices? A comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in  European mobile telecommunication markets, Discussion papers MT-DP – 2015/41 Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in English)
Édes, B. – Bölcskei, V. – Lőrincz, L. – Nagy, P. – Pápai, Z.: Substitutability between fixed and mobile telephone services, In: Competition and Regulation 2015. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L. – Antal-Pomázi, K. – Nagy, Cs. I., 2015 (in English)
Pápai, Z.: What can we learn from the European 800MHz auction results? Presentation at the 25th European Regional Conference of the ITS (International Telecommunication Society), 2014
Pápai, Z.: Does the number of mobile operators matter? Presentation at the WIK Conference on the Single market and future framework for electronic communications, 2014
Csorba, G. – Pápai, Z.: Does one more or one less mobile operator affect prices? A comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in European mobile telecommunication markets. Presentation at the 24th European Regional Conference of the ITS (International Telecommunication Society), at the EARIE (European Association for Research in Industrial Economics) conference in Évora & at the Competition and Regulation European Summer School and Conference (CRESSE) in 2013
Pápai, Z. – Lőrincz, L. – Édes, B.: Triple play as a separate market? Empirical findings and consequences to broadband market definition. In: Innovative ICT Applications – Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues. 22nd European Regional ITS Conference Budapest 18-21 September, 2011
Pápai, Z.: The Issue of Competition in the Oligopoly Broadband Market, In: Competition and Regulation 2010. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L. – Nagy, Cs. I., 2011 (in Hungarian)
Gálik, M.– Pápai, Z.– Urbán, Á.: Discussion of Net Neutrality in Case of Information and Communication Networks, In: Competition and Regulation 2010. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L. – Nagy, Cs. I., 2011 (in Hungarian)
Bánhidi, F. – Pápai, Z.: Challenges in the regulation of broadband in Hungary.  In: Telecommunications at new crossroads: Changing value configurations, user roles, and regulation. 21st European Regional ITS Conference Copenhagen, 13-15 September 2010
Bölcskei, V.: Reviewing Demand Models of Telephone Services  Particularly in View of Estimating Fixed-Mobile Substitution Effect, Hungarian Economics Review, LVII., June 2010. (517–535. p.) (in Hungarian)
Édes, B.– Bölcskei, V. – Lőrincz, L. – Nagy, P. – Pápai, Z.: Investigating on Substitution between Fixed and Mobile Telephone Services, In: Competition and Regulation 2010. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L. – Nagy, Cs. I., 2010 (in Hungarian)
Lőrincz, L. – Nagy, P.: Impact of Switching Costs on Competition in the Telecommunications Markets, In: Competition and Regulation 2010. Ed.: Valentiny, P.- Kiss, F. L., 2009 (in Hungarian) – Switching Costs in Telecommunications: Conclusions from a Hungarian Survey, In: Promoting New Telecom Infrastructures Markets, Policies and Pricing. Ed.: M. Falch – J. Markendhal, Edward Elgar Publishing (2010) (in English)