• DocumentCode
    2805201
  • Title

    Price war with migrating customers

  • Author

    Maillé, Patrick ; Naldi, Maurizio ; Tuffin, Bruno

  • Author_Institution
    TELECOM Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne, France
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    21-23 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    In the telecommunication world, competition among providers to attract and keep customers is fierce. On the other hand customers churn between providers due to better prices, better reputation or better services. We propose in this paper to study the price war between two providers in the case where users´ decisions are modeled by a Markov chain, with price-dependent transition rates. Each provider is assumed to look for a maximized revenue, which depends on the strategy of the competitor. Therefore, using the framework of non-cooperative game theory, we show how the price war can be analyzed and show the influence of various parameters.
  • Keywords
    Markov processes; game theory; pricing; Markov chain; migrating customers; noncooperative game theory; price war; price-dependent transition rates; Costs; Delay; Game theory; Pricing; Steady-state; Switches; Telecommunication congestion control; Telecommunication services; Telephony; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Modeling, Analysis & Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2009. MASCOTS '09. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    1526-7539
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4927-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1526-7539
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MASCOT.2009.5362674
  • Filename
    5362674