The economic impact of wireless number portability

Minjung Park

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6451.2011.00471.x

The economic impact of wireless number portability

Minjung Park

Department of Economics

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This paper examines the price response of wireless carriers to the introduction of number portability in the U.S. I find that wireless prices decreased in response to number portability, but not uniformly across plans. Average prices for the plans with the fewest minutes decreased by only $0.19/month (0.97%), but average prices for medium and high-volume plans decreased by $3.64/month (4.84%) and $10.29/month (6.81%), respectively. The results suggest that higher-volume users in the wireless market benefited more from the policy-induced reduction in switching costs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	714-745
Number of pages	32
Journal	Journal of Industrial Economics
Volume	59
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6451.2011.00471.x
State	Published - Dec 2011

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