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 …

We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …

. The present paper will examine and compare properties of telecommunications networks for both the United States and Europe …

tests the causal and reciprocal relationships between investment in telecommunications and GDP during the transitional … telecommunications sector. The research reveals strong and positive relationship between economic reform and firms’ revenue and profit …. The regression analysis shows that the telecommunications sector is statistically insignificant in explaining the GDP …