deliberate practices of a dominant firm in a market that exploit or misuse its market power to the detriment of competition, consumers, and other market participants. Acts of abuse of dominance seek to drive competitors out of the market and may include practices such as price discrimination, margin squeezing, cross subsidization, predatory prices, exploitative prices and tying and bundling, among others.
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The Role of Competition Law in Promoting Access to Telecommunication Services in Tanzania: Taking Stock of the Developments so Far
Goodluck Temu (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
Copyright: © 2024
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0390-0.ch002
Abstract
As of June 2023, the percentage of Tanzanians who had access to a telephone was more than one hundred per cent. However, this has not always been so. For example, in 1997, there was a telephone density of 0.32 per cent. This average was much lower than those of neighbouring Kenya (0.92), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (3.4), Asia (3.86), and Europe (35.36). Fast forward a little over twenty years and practically everyone in Tanzania now has access to a telephone. This chapter, among other things, argues that establishing favourable legislative and regulatory frameworks that encourage the competitive provision of telecommunication services has directly contributed to these developments. As a result, the chapter's primary argument is that the implementation of these frameworks has directly contributed to increased access to telecommunications services, which in turn has contributed to the achievement of the SDGs.