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The paper investigates determinants of pricing in international telephone service markets. The analysis—focused on 24 worldwide national markets—shows the impact of several telecommunications-specific and macroeconomic variables on collection rate differentials and traffic imbalance between countries. An econometric model is aimed at performing quantitative analysis and providing support to future telecommunications policies.
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Nucciarelli, A., Gastaldi, M. & Levialdi, N.G. Asymmetric competition and collection rates differentials: determinants of prices in international telephone service markets. Netnomics 11, 315–329 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11066-009-9042-5
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