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The Effect Of Entry And Market Structure On Cellular Pricing Tactics
Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - Stanford University; Stanford University - 2004
We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellularfirms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, whenincumbents faced increased competition from personal communicationsservices (PCS) firms. Entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435072
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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction
Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2004
This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in … never be realized in local telecommunications inthe fashion that the 1996 prescribed. The decision of AT&T to stopmarketing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435083
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Retail Prices and Facility-Based Entry into the Telecommunications Market
Gabel, David; Gideon, Carolyn - Queens College; Tufts University - 2005
There is growing sentiment that rate rebalancing to eliminate crosssubsidies between local business and local residential telephone marketsis necessary to induce efficient entry in the residential market. If theelasticity of supply with respect to the relative prices for businessand residential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435088
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges asin the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determinethe access price that network i pays to network j as a linear functionof the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112
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Crowding Out or Complementarity in the Telecommunications Market?
Ribeiro, Ricardo; Vareda, Joao - London School of Economics; Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2007
)regulate telecommunications provision. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435126
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing:Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linearprices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the caseof a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes theresults of Gans and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435152
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The Results of Competition Between Integrated-Services Telecommunications Carriers
Peha, Jon M.; Tewari, Saurabh - 1998
This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441052
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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector
Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008
There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) lead to performance improvements of such firms. Since profitability measures alone are possibly inappropriate for SOEs, we address this very significant current question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441699
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Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry.
Neuman, Eric J. - 2008
federal Telecommunications Act of 1996. Regulators within state governments had historically played a large role in governing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476565
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Profitability, productivity and price recovery patterns in the U.S. telecommunications industry
Banker, R. D.; Chang, Hsi-Hui; Majumdar, Sumit K. - 1996
.S. telecommunications industry over a sixteen-year period. We assess the performance of thirty-three major companies in the local … dimensions of performance in the telecommunications industry, also validating a number of theoretical assumptions about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476753