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This paper deals with the sizing of telecommunications networks offering private line service to a few clients. The … clients ask for some transfer capacity between some pair of nodes, but their demand is uncertain. In case of high demand and … insufficient capacity, some clients may be denied the transfer; the telecommunications company pays a penalty cost for that. …
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The Australian telecommunications sector experienced substantial structural change during the 1990s, change that … increased productivity and reduced costs. At this time, telecommunications was already an important item of household …
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From 1989 to 1994 the government of Mexico carried out a major restructuring of the telecommunications sector … context, issues, and options for telecommunications policy and regulatory reform in Mexico as the second wave of the sector …
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efficient when call externality is modest, and more profitable when either call externality is modest and call demand elasticity … high or call externality high and call demand elasticity low. Our predictions are consistent both with observed network …
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purchase and download software applications for their smartphone. This paper provides evidence for both demand and supply of …
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In this article I analyze the effects of a recent reform intended to decrease switching costs in the cellular industry. The reform, implemented in Chile in 2012, allowed cell phone users to switch operators without any contract restriction while keeping their wireless number. Its aim was the...
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We estimate a dynamic oligopoly entry game in the early U.S. local telephone market. We observe the identities of potential entrants into local markets and therefore the waiting time of each potential entrant before it commits actual entry. To capture the feature of the data, we allow firms to...
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modeling of demand in situations where multipart tariffs induce marginal-price uncertainty. Additionally, our model estimates …
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A general theoretical and empirical framework is developed for assessing the potential of a vertically integrated firm to foreclose downstream competitors. Using this framework a policymaker may also evaluate the empirical welfare effects from a vertically integrated firm raising rivals' costs....
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