Price competition with reduced consumer switching costs: The case of "wireless number portability" in the cellular phone industry

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-38

  Shi, Mengze ^a   Chiang, Jeongwen ^b,c   Rhee, Byong Duk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Center for AI and Institutions at CKGSB   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Network externality; Number portability; Price discrimination; Switching costs

Indexed keywords

NETWORK EXTERNALITY; NUMBER PORTABILITY; PRICE DISCRIMINATION; SWITCHING COSTS;

COMPETITION; COSTS; PUBLIC POLICY; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644519297     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0466     Document Type: Article

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