Unlike bus and rail operators, the nature of telecommunication service meant that small players in the market cannot start small. Specifically, a 4G telecommunication line for voice call and short message service must work everywhere in the defined geographical locale. This means that whatever...

Coordinating the timing and location of new production facilities is one of the challenges of liberalized power sectors. It is complicated by the presence of transmission bottlenecks, oligopolistic competition, and the unknown prospects of low-carbon technologies. The authors build a model...

"The authors use a panel-data set for the period 1980-2002 to estimate demand for electricity and telecommunications services and project investment needs in South Africa through 2010 for two growth scenarios. Projections of average annual investment needs in electricity and telecommunications...