The Finnish telecommunications market: Advantage of local access incumbency

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 757-773

  Nattermann, P M ^a   Murphy, D D ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING;

TELECOMMUNICATION LOCAL LOOP;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032181578     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(98)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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24. We thank an anonymous referee for pointing out this fact and others to us.