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rate plans. Each plan has a nonlinear price schedule, and price is usually lower for in-network calls. I present an … termination-based pricing schemes on the market structure. While the existence of in-network discounts causes considerable tipping … effects on market shares, the effects come primarily from reducing the average prices, not from the difference between in-network …
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Previous research has argued that telecommunications networks under nonlinear pricing cannot use reciprocal access charges as an instrument of collusion as long as the market is mature and there is either full participation or an exogenous participation rate. This paper shows that (even...
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Mobile-only users are usually considered as a consequence of fi xed-mobile substitution. Via a unique dataset based on a a large European country survey and consumers invoice data, this study reveals heterogeneous preferences for fixed services among consumers. The data is fitted in a mixed...
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I explore the effects of on-net / off-net differentiation on network sizes in mobile telecommunications when both … the network with the lowest expected cost of a call; (2) partly informed rational (PIR) consumers who only observe market … shares within a circular sensing field and choose the network with the lowest expected cost of a call based on these observed …
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This paper explores how consumers react towards price differentiation between on-net and off-net calls in mobile telecommunications - a pricing policy that is common in many mobile telecommunications markets. Based on a survey of 1044 students we demonstrate that some consumers may suffer from a...
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Consumer satisfaction is a key determinant of customer retention, profitability of operators, consumer welfare and a strategic variable for competition and international comparisons. Spain's mobile customer satisfaction is the lowest in the European Union according to recent EU studies (SMREC,...
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The phenomenal growth of the customer base for mobile phones has been heavily promoted by the industry. However, analysis of the numbers indicates that there are massive levels of systemic overcounting, caused by customers with multiple subscriptions, perhaps for a range of operators, perhaps...
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The study aims to investigated of iGen customer loyalty model that effected by service quality, culture, loyalty program and trust trough customer satisfaction. Following the conceptual model, an inclusive set of hypotheses have been developed. The demanded data were collected from 663 samples...
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