Telecommunications Pricing : Theory and Practice (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Part I. Pricing and Telecommunications: 1. Introduction; 2. Telecommunications production, costs, and pricing; Part II. Recent Development in the Normative Economic Theory of Tariffs: 3. Types of tariffs; 4. Linear tariffs; 5. Nonlinear tariffs; 6. Cost-based tariffs; Part III. Telephone rate Structures in the United States: 7. Regulation and US retail rates; 8. Optional calling plans; 9. Business bulk-rate tariffs; 10. Pricing of carrier services; 11. Social tariffs; Part IV. Synthesis: 12. Synthesis of theory and practice; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; Selected list of RAND books.