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Price wars in a highly concentrated industry: Mobile communication voice services

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  • John Jairo García Rendón

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  • Diego F. Linares

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This work focuses on the main variables that explain the prices of the voice services established by mobile service providers in Colombia. This will be done by analyzing different variables that characterize this sector, like, historical prices stablished by all operators, all the investments made in network development, market sharing and all the existing regulatory measures. We develop a model for data panels in the period between 2005 and 2011, which makes evident the existing interdependence amongst the different companies when setting rates. It is also evident the leadership of one of the competitors and the existing price war between providers.

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  • John Jairo García Rendón & Diego F. Linares, 2018. "Price wars in a highly concentrated industry: Mobile communication voice services," Documentos de Trabajo CIEF 016449, Universidad EAFIT.
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    Keywords

    Telecommunications; price wars; Investment; Regulation; Colombia;

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    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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