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 …

For three decades the government of South Africa has sought to make telecommunications universally available and …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and …

I develop a structural demand model for mobile telephone service, which facilitates the identification of network … ignoring network effects leads to an overestimation of elasticity of demand. …

Mobile telecommunications markets have been studied primarily from the perspectives of mobile telecom operators, market … research questions of the project are whether, and to what extent, individual consumers of mobile telecommunications are … can increase the efficiency of the industry and the welfare of telecommunications consumers. The specific research …

I develop a structural demand model for mobile telephone service, which facilitates the identification of network … network effects leads to an overestimation of elasticity of demand …