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
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