Consider the company “Comcast” and explain if the company is: perfectly competitive; monopolistic competitive; oligopoly; or pure monopoly.
Then explain if the company’s demand curve is relatively elastic or relatively inelastic? Explain how you arrive at this conclusion.
Finally, how does elasticity effect the company’s control over its price?
Concast operates into Oligopolistic marjet structures because the market is determined by large scale cable and Internet provider like At&T, Time Warner, Sprint, etc with considerable market structure . The entry barriers to this market are high enough.
The companies have elastic demand over prices because if prices see sudden increase, customers easily switch to other providers with low cost as customers have high probability of substitution . Hence, firms in these market have to maintain competitive rates albeit with decent enough margins.
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