Prices for long-distance voice telephony in Germany
This paper examines the first 16 months of competition in the German market for long-distance voice telephony on the fixed network. It concentrates on price level and price structure. Competition induced by the entry of both network operators and switch-based service providers decreased the price level substantially. Furthermore, after initial attempts to design innovative price structures, most firms gave up differentiation, and instead charged uniform prices for long-distance calls for residential customers. Moreover, the decrease in the price level seems to have induced a shift in the peak-load structure, which raises concern about the regulation of the peak-load structure of interconnection charges.
Year of publication: |
2000
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Authors: | Brunekreeft, Gert ; Gross, Wolfgang |
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Telecommunications Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-5961. - Vol. 24.2000, 10-11, p. 929-945
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Telecommunications Price discrimination Peak-load pricing |
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