We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price …

The interplay of infrastructure supply and demand is of central interest in line with Web 2.0. As the role of customers …, simultaneously, customers' demand for high-quality infrastructure. On the other hand, infrastructure providers carry investment risks … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …

This paper provides some estimates of demand elasticity for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in … peak hours. In relative terms, demand for communications during peak hours is more elastic for urban than for rural … consumers and the reverse holds for demand during off-peak hours. The highest valuations are attached by rural consumers to …

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand … highly, they are as much as twice more elastic than off-peak communications. In relative terms, demand for communications … during peak hours is more elastic for urban than for rural consumers, while the reverse can be said about demand for off …

This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm …-run and long-run demand elasticities for business customers and for private consumers with both postpaid contracts and prepaid … cards. We find that business customers have a higher elasticity of demand than private consumers, where postpaid customers …