Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53223 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 99.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent and a new entrant. Networks compete in non-linear tariffs and may charge different prices for on-net and off-net calls. Departing from cost-based access pricing allows the incumbent to foreclose the market in a profitable way. If the incumbent benefits from customer inertia, then it has an incentive to insist in the highest possible access markup even if access charges are reciprocal and even in the absence of actual switching costs. If instead the entrant benefits from customer activism, then foreclosure is profitable only when switching costs are large enough.
Subjects: 
Access Pricing
Entry Deterrence
Interconnection
Network Competition
Two-way Access
JEL: 
L41
L51
L96
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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