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Four ways to sustain head-to-head competition

20 May 2011
 

The competition Commission suggests four possible remedies to ensure that head-to-head competition is sustained more often.

They are:

restrictions on large incumbent operators increasing service frequencies (‘overbussing’) in response to new entrants. Alternatively, incumbents could be prevented from reducing the higher frequencies if the new entrant exits or retrenches. This remedy could be policed by Traffic Commissioners.

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