Chua, Gian Angelo E. <br/><br/>
Anti-Competitive Behaviors through Consumer Switching Constraints Imposed by Mobile Telecommunications Firms in the Philippines/ 
by Gian Angelo E. Chua 
 - Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines:  University of the Philippines College of Law 
 - 28 pages 
 - Quarterly 
 - August 2018 
 - Philippine Law Journal  Vol.91, No.3 (August 2018)  0031-7721 .
 -  Vol.91, No.3 (August 2018)  0031-7721 .
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>0031-7721 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Telecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines<br/>Telecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines - Violations<br/>Competition - Law
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>BPer. 340  / P538