Research Of Telecom Price Mode And Level

In the last twenty years, the institutions and technologies of telecom industry have revolutionary changes. The development of fiber technique, digital technique and mobile communication technique and the reform in the telecom field in the western country, such as America, have promoted the research of telecom price theory and pricing practice. A number of scholars have focused on this field after the publication of the paper about the best departure of marginal cost by Baumol and Bradford in 1970. At the end of the 70s, peak-load pricing and Ramsey pricing are the classical topics of economists. Then, the research of the two-part tariff has been finished basically, economists has started the research of common non-linear pricing.The research will analyze the diversiform telecom pricing mode appeared to classify them to the linear pricing, non-linear pricing and discrimination pricing by inside and outside. Especially, the research will build a mode to analyze the arisen reason and forbidden reason of discrimination pricing by inside and outside which has been forbidden in 2005 by government. Then from the aspect of the welfare economy, the research found the deep reason of the development of the telecom price mode and indicated the development direction. Finally, the research analyzed the reason of big depreciation from supply-demand relationship of the mobile telecommunication market in the recent years.The conclusion of this paper could be summarized as follow:1. All of the telecom price modes that have been used, such as monthly package, monthly rent add talk expense and a lots of series, could be corresponded to the linear pricing, two-part tariff, three-part tariff and bundling.2. Actually, the development of the telecom mode is Pareto improvement. It is also a win-win process. In this process, consumer surplus has been increased due to the enlarged consumption stimulated by the decreased average price. And the producer surplus will not reduce greatly due to the increase of the gross, even will increase. Finally, the society surplus will be improved greatly. In the future, telecom price mode will also abide this rule. The price mode which accord with this rule will be accepted. On the contrary, the price mod which against this rule would be washed out. The tasks of carriers are segmenting the market further and designing more price mode to satisfying the consumer needs. Therefore, the author believes for the different consumer needs, the telecom price...