Telecommunications pricing : theory and practice

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Telecommunications pricing : theory and practice

Bridger M. Mitchell and Ingo Vogelsang

Cambridge University Press, 1991

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  • : pbk

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"A Rand research study supported by WIK."

Bibliography: p. [287]-300

Includes index

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The past decade has witnessed a surge of pricing innovations in the U.S. telecommunications industry. This book systematically reviews recent innovations in the economic theory of pricing and extends results to the conditions which characterise telecommunications markets. The implementation of normative pricing theory is examined in selected US telephone tariffs, providing a rich and diverse data base and laboratory for examining the practical consequences of pricing innovations. The authors develop and illuminate the relationships between the normative economic theory of pricing - with its objectives of social welfare, economic efficiency, and fairness - and telecommunications pricing as it is practised by business and regulators. The general theoretical pricing principles and lessons of US pricing experience discussed are directly applicable to telecommunications services in other countries, and to numerous other industries including electricity, gas, rail and air transport, and postal services, as well as economists studying the economic theory of pricing.

Table of Contents

  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Pricing and Telecommunications: 1. Introduction
  • 2. Telecommunications production, costs, and pricing
  • Part II. Recent Development in the Normative Economic Theory of Tariffs: 3. Types of tariffs
  • 4. Linear tariffs
  • 5. Nonlinear tariffs
  • 6. Cost-based tariffs
  • Part III. Telephone rate Structures in the United States: 7. Regulation and US retail rates
  • 8. Optional calling plans
  • 9. Business bulk-rate tariffs
  • 10. Pricing of carrier services
  • 11. Social tariffs
  • Part IV. Synthesis: 12. Synthesis of theory and practice
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Selected list of RAND books.

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