Can the poor afford mobile telephony? Evidence from Latin America
Telecommunications Policy
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
The Information Society
The landlocked island: Information access and communications policy in Nepal
Telecommunications Policy
The effects of taxation on mobile phones: a panel data approach
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Understanding early diffusion of digital wireless phones
Telecommunications Policy
An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Voice Service and SMS: A Structural Model
Management Science
Mobile telephony access and usage in Africa
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Demand for broadband access in Greece
Telematics and Informatics
Telecommunications services and economic growth: Evidence from India
Telecommunications Policy
Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market
Telecommunications Policy
Economy size and performance: An efficiency analysis in the telecommunications sector
Telecommunications Policy
Quantifying price-driven wireless substitution in telephony
Telecommunications Policy
Economic impacts of mobile versus fixed broadband
Telecommunications Policy
Fixed and mobile broadband substitution in Sweden
Telecommunications Policy
Implications of mandatory registration of mobile phone users in Africa
Telecommunications Policy
The diffusion of mobile telephones: An empirical analysis for Peru
Telecommunications Policy
Examining the growth of digital wireless phone technology: A take-off theory analysis
Decision Support Systems
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Living standards and economic growth in developing countries are invariably linked to the availability and use of telecom services. Effective policy decisions require the best estimates of the drivers of these services. In this paper, telecommunications demand is estimated in models for residential mainline and mobile telephone service for developing countries for the period 1996-2003. The paper tests for cross-price effects between mainline and mobile service and its findings have important policy implications. It finds residential monthly price elasticity to be insignificant for developing countries, but the connection elasticity is larger than generally found in the literature. Mobile monthly price elasticities are very large. A new and important empirical finding is that although wireline phones are substitutes in the mobile market, the contrary is not true-mobile phones are not substitutes in the wireline market, and in fact may be considered complements. This lack of symmetry has important implications for properly defining telecom markets. Universal service subsidies and competitive market initiatives should be reevaluated in light of the paper's elasticity estimates. Increased competition, income growth and enhanced education may be the ultimate universal service promoters.