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Anti-Competitive Behaviors through Consumer Switching Constraints Imposed by Mobile Telecommunications Firms in the Philippines/ by Gian Angelo E. Chua

By: Material type: ArticleArticleSeries: Philippine Law Journal ; Vol.91, No.3 (August 2018) | ; Vol.91, No.3 (August 2018)Publication details: Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines College of LawDescription: 28 pagesISSN:
  • 0031-7721
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • BPer. 340 P538
Summary: This note, adding to the development of legal and economic authors on switching costs, postulates that the collectively dominant incumbent mobile telecommunication service providers--Globe and Smart--in imposing lock-in periods and mobile number (un)portability are abusing their dominant position. The substantial and strategic creation or increase by a dominant firm of switching costs, which are the monetary and non-monetary costs consumers incur in switching from one provider to another, constitutes abuse under Section 15 of the Philippine Competition Act.
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This note, adding to the development of legal and economic authors on switching costs, postulates that the collectively dominant incumbent mobile telecommunication service providers--Globe and Smart--in imposing lock-in periods and mobile number (un)portability are abusing their dominant position. The substantial and strategic creation or increase by a dominant firm of switching costs, which are the monetary and non-monetary costs consumers incur in switching from one provider to another, constitutes abuse under Section 15 of the Philippine Competition Act.

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