Opening Networks to Competition

Download or read book Opening Networks to Competition written by David Gabel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten papers from a November 1993 conference at Columbia University explore the related problems of regulating and pricing access both in traditional network industries such as gas, electric, rail, and telephones services and in the newer sectors such as microcomputers, automated teller machines, and credit card markets. They discuss the high entry barrier and the interest of incumbent companies to refuse to negotiate interconnection agreements with newcomers. Among the case studies cited are telecommunications in New Zealand, rail freight compared to telecommunications, railways in Britain, and the exclusionary behavior of Microsoft in the operating system market. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR