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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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fact complements. We estimate a structural continuous-choice demand model following Pinkse et al. (2002), Pinkse and Slade …)regulate telecommunications provision. …
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This paper deals with the sizing of telecommunications networks offering private line service to a few clients. The … clients ask for some transfer capacity between some pair of nodes, but their demand is uncertain. In case of high demand and … insufficient capacity, some clients may be denied the transfer; the telecommunications company pays a penalty cost for that. …
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For the past twenty-five years, the U.S. Government has increasingly looked to antitrust—rather than regulation—to protect consumers in the Internet Ecosystem. There is a growing school of thought that an antitrust-only approach has failed and is ill-suited for the Internet Ecosystem. Reform...
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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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