Contestability and pricing flexibility: Issues in Hong Kong

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-13

  Bernard, Keith ^a   Tracy Sum, C S ^a  

^a Hong Kong Telecom   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL; TELEPHONE ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS; UTILITY RATES;

MARKET CONTESTABILITY; PRICING FLEXIBILITY;

TELEPHONE;

EID: 0031073074     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0308-5961(96)00061-4     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Lam, Pun-Lee 'Transition to competition in Hong Kong's local telephone industry' Telecommunications Policy 1996 20 (7).
2. The three new licensees are Hutchison Communications Limited (HCL), New T&T Hong Kong Limited (NEW T&T) and New World Telephone Limited (NWT).
3. Hong Kong Telecom International Ltd (HKTI) pays delivery fee to the FTNS operators for the access to their respective network in order to deliver international calls from and to customers. HKTI has exclusivity in the international call market.
4. See price cap performance review for local exchange carriers, second further notice of proposed rulemaking, CC Docket No. 94-1, treatment of operator services under price cap regulation, further notice of proposed rulemaking in CC Docket No. 93-124, and revisions to price cap rules for AT&T, CC Docket No. 93-197, FCC 95-393 (released: 20 September, 1995), 106-115.
5. Telephone number portability, notice of proposed rulemaking, CC Docket No. 95-116, FCC 95-284 (released: 13 July 1995).
6. 'Private line rate structure and volume discount practices', CC Docket No. 79-246; FCC 84-147.
7. 'Guidelines for dominant carriers, MTS rates and rate structure plans', NPRM, CC Docket No. 84-1235; FCC 84-564,
8. Given the lack of contestability in the UK, BT will still be subject to Condition 24F of its licence which requires it to obtain the prior written consent of the Director General before it can price standard services below fully allocated costs.
9. See AUSTEL, Decision-making Framework: For the Performance of AUSTEL's Function to Disallow Anti-competitive Tariff, January, 1995.
10. Private line rate structure and volume discount practices, report and order CC Docket No. 79-246, FCC 84-147 (released 24 April 1984).
11. Guidelines for dominant carriers' MTE rates and rate structure plans, notice of proposed rulemaking, CC Docket No. 84-1235, FCC 84-564 (released 9 January 1985).
12. See para. F.54 to Annex F (Guidelines on the Operation of the Fair Trading Condition) to the OFTEL statement dated June 1996 - 'Pricing of telecommunications services from 1997 - OFTEL's proposal for price control and fair trading'.