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040			_cUM Bansalan College LIC
082			_aBPer. 340 _bP538
100			_aChua, Gian Angelo E. _914565
245			_aAnti-Competitive Behaviors through Consumer Switching Constraints Imposed by Mobile Telecommunications Firms in the Philippines/ _cby Gian Angelo E. Chua
260			_aDiliman, Quezon City, Philippines: _bUniversity of the Philippines College of Law
300			_a28 pages
310			_aQuarterly
362			_aAugust 2018
440			_aPhilippine Law Journal _vVol.91, No.3 (August 2018) _x0031-7721 _914528
490			_vVol.91, No.3 (August 2018) _x0031-7721
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aTelecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines _914566
650			_aTelecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines - Violations _914567
650		0	_aCompetition - Law _914562
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