Estimating consumer surplus in the mobile telecommunications market: The case of Korea

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 10-11, 2006, Pages 605-621

  Hee Lee, Duk ^a   Hee Lee, Dong ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Consumer surplus; Demand; Introduction of competition; Korea; Mobile telephone services; Network externality

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MARKETING; PUBLIC POLICY; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEPHONE SETS;

CONSUMER SURPLUS; INTRODUCTION OF COMPETITION; KOREA; MOBILE TELEPHONE SERVICES; NETWORK EXTERNALITY;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750529343     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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