Local telephone pricing: Competitive forces at work

Utilities Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-96

  Knittel, Christopher R ^a  

^a Energy Institute at Haas and National Bureau of Economic Research   (United States)

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DEREGULATION IMPACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 0031428502     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0957-1787(97)00008-8     Document Type: Article

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