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Access Pricing under Competition: An Application to Cellular Networks
Author(s) -
Wright Julian
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
the journal of industrial economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.93
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1467-6451
pISSN - 0022-1821
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6451.00178
Subject(s) - monopoly , competition (biology) , business , payment , upstream (networking) , industrial organization , downstream (manufacturing) , cellular network , microeconomics , set (abstract data type) , telecommunications , economics , computer science , marketing , finance , ecology , programming language , biology
A new class of access pricing problems is analyzed in which upstream firms compete for customers and access to these customers is required by downstream markets. Using fixed–to–cellular calls as an example, a model is presented which shows that the determination of cellular termination charges is quite different to standard access pricing problems. Competition between cellular firms leads to access prices being set either at, or above, the monopoly level. Applications are given for other market settings, including the termination of long–distance calls on competing local exchange networks and the setting of interchange fees in payment systems.