TY  - SER
AU  - Chua, Gian Angelo E.
TI  - Anti-Competitive Behaviors through Consumer Switching Constraints Imposed by Mobile Telecommunications Firms in the Philippines
SN  - 0031-7721
U1  - BPer. 340 
CY  - Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
PB  - University of the Philippines College of Law
KW  - Telecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines
KW  - Telecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines - Violations
KW  - Competition - Law
N2  - 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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