The Swiss telecommunication market after liberalization
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The Swiss government deregulated the Swiss telecommunication market in January, 1998. This paper presents the results of a broad empirical survey of the Swiss tele-communication market after liberalization. The survey focused on applied tariff mod-els and pricing strategies.
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