Empirical Study on Unit Bias under the Flat Rate Pricing in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market 


Vol. 41,  No. 2, pp. 229-237, Feb.  2016


PDF Full-Text
  Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify whether unit bias exists or not under the flat rate pricing in the Korean mobile telecommunication market and to give the desirable form of pricing plans for minimizing this irrational behaviors. Our results show that with the flat rate pricing consumers tends to make more voice or data traffic over their optimal consumption level, meaning the existence of unit bias in the Korean mobile market. These results imply that under the current pricing plans subscribers may pay higher monthly fee than their optimal cost which maximizes their utility, for using the telecommunications service. Thus, policy makers need to consider adopting mobile operators’ segmentation of the flat rate pricing plans for the reduction of subscribers’ telecommunications costs and the improvement of consumer welfare.

  Statistics
Cumulative Counts from November, 2022
Multiple requests among the same browser session are counted as one view. If you mouse over a chart, the values of data points will be shown.


  Cite this article

[IEEE Style]

S. Lee, S. Jeong, H. Lee, "Empirical Study on Unit Bias under the Flat Rate Pricing in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 229-237, 2016. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Sang-Woo Lee, Seon-Hwa Jeong, and Hyeongjik Lee. 2016. Empirical Study on Unit Bias under the Flat Rate Pricing in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 41, 2, (2016), 229-237. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Sang-Woo Lee, Seon-Hwa Jeong, Hyeongjik Lee, "Empirical Study on Unit Bias under the Flat Rate Pricing in the Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 229-237, 2. 2016.

Search
(IN TITLE, AUTHOR, ABSTRACT,KEYWORDS)

Advanced Search ▼

POPULAR KEYWORDS
(TOP 10 KEYWORDS)

Recent Publications
(LAST 3 YEARS)






pISSN : 1226 - 4717
eISSN : 2287 - 3880