Competition in telecommunications
探讨电信行业竞争的可能性，考虑自然垄断、网络外部性和客户惯性，并评述英国竞争政策，重点分析接入定价和互联互通的经济学理论。
This paper discusses the scope for competition in the telecommunications industry, taking into account the features of natural monopoly, network externalities, and customer inertia. Recent policy towards competition in the industry in the UK is surveyed, with an emphasis on access pricing and interconnection. Finally, recent theoretical developments in the economics of access pricing and interconnection are discussed and shown to lend some support for aspects of current policy in the UK. Copyright 1997 by Oxford University Press.