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040 _cUM Bansalan College LIC
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100 _aChua, Gian Angelo E.
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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
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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
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650 _aTelecommunication - Business enterprises - Philippines - Violations
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650 0 _aCompetition - Law
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