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ICT 2004: Telecommunications and Networking - ICT 2004 pp 192–198Cite as

Mobile Telephony Industry: Price Discrimination Strategies for Interconnected Networks

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Abstract

The changes occurring in the mobile telephony industry, both at legislative and technological level, have affected the competitive scenario in various national contexts. The main aim of this paper is to highlights the results of price discrimination strategy in terms of market shares and profits in order to identify incumbent behaviours able to inhibit competition.

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  1. Dipartimento di Meccanica, Strutture, Ambiente e Territorio, Università degli Studi di Cassino, Via G. Di Biasio 43, 03043, Cassino, FR

    L. Cricelli

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Roma

    F. Di Pillo & N. Levialdi

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università degli Studi di L’Aquila, 67100, Monteluco di Roio, L’Aquila

    M. Gastaldi

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  1. Departamento de Computacao, Universida de Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici - Bloco 910, 60455-760, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

    José Neuman de Souza

  2. Cisco Systems, Inc., 10 West Tasman Drive, Bldg O/2, CA 95134, San Jose, USA

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  3. IUT, University of Haute Alsace, 34, rue du Grillenbreit, 68008, Colmar, France

    Pascal Lorenz

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Cricelli, L., Di Pillo, F., Levialdi, N., Gastaldi, M. (2004). Mobile Telephony Industry: Price Discrimination Strategies for Interconnected Networks. In: de Souza, J.N., Dini, P., Lorenz, P. (eds) Telecommunications and Networking - ICT 2004. ICT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27824-5_27

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