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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …
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We develop a model of competition between interconnected networks, with separate local and long-distance markets …, allowing for various degrees of symmetry between carriers. Assuming two part pricing, we show that effective competition can be … interconnected local networks want to agree on cost based interconnection charges, but that through competition for local market …
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We examine the interaction between two interconnected networks (e.g., two LECs) and a third network (e.g., an IXC … transit calls to the other LEC via the first LEC's network. We show that there is a wide set of cases in which competitive … transit could justify partial or even complete deregulation of access to a network's customer base …
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network (e.g., an interexchange carrier (IXC)) seeking access to their customer base. The IXC could either interconnect with … both LECs or interconnect with only one LEC and transit calls to the other LEC via the first LEC's network. We show that … network's customer base …
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carrier identification affect these findings. -- number portability ; switching costs ; telecommunications ; network … ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify networks. As a result, while fostering competition for mobile customers, MNP … competition …
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promotion of competition through the determination of proper incentives for the deployment of dynamically efficient network …I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … competition processes and information systems rather than based on the traditional measurement of market shares and concentration …
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This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). We show that if the sole effect of introducing MNP is the abolishment of switching costs, MNP unambiguously benefits mobile customers. However, if MNP also causes consumer ignorance, as telephone numbers no...
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Interconnection rates are a key variable in telecommunications markets. Every call that is placed must be terminated by … the network of the receiving party, thus the termination end has the characteristic of an economic bottleneck and is … affect competition among mobile operators. We show that the waterbed effect is diluted, but not eliminated, for customers …
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