Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice
Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice, which builds upon the author's seminal 1980 book, Telecommunications Demand: A Review and Critique, provides comprehensive analyses of the determinants and structure of telecommunications demands in the United States and Canada. Theory and empir...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
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Table of Contents:
- II. A General Model of Business Demand
- III. Some Specific Models of Business Demand
- IV. Business Demand From the Point of View of the Local Exchange Company
- V. Wrap-up and Summary
- 5/Recent Studies of Residential Access Demand
- I. The 1983 Perl Study
- II. Southwestern Bell’s Residential Access Demand Model: Taylor and Kridel (1990)
- III. Bell Canada’s Residential Access Demand Model
- IV Train, McFadden, and Ben-Akiva (1987)
- V. Evaluation
- 6/Recent Studies of Toll Demand
- I. Toll Demand in Ontario and Quebec
- II. Point-to-Point Toll Demand
- III. The Demand for Interstate Access Minutes
- IV. The Demand for Bypass of the LEC
- V. Wrap-up
- 7/The Demand for Local Calls and Related Local Services
- I. Local Calling and the Choice Between Flat-Rate and Measured Service
- II. Bypass Via EAS: Kridel (1988)
- III. Results Fromthe GTE Measured-Service Experiment: Park, Wetzel, & Mitchell (1983)
- IV. The Demand for Custom-Calling Features
- 8/Business Telephone System Demand
- I. Total-Bill and Socio-Demographic Effects
- II. Business Telephone System Demand
- III. Total-Bill Effects
- IV. Socio-Demographic and Other Characteristics of Telecommunications Demand
- 9/Consumption Externalities
- I. The Network Externality and the Optimal Pricing of Telecommunications Services
- II. An Alternative Measure of the Network Externality
- III. Distributional Equity
- IV. Some Remaining Questions
- V Call Externalities
- VI. Empirical Evidence Regarding Consumption Externalities
- VII. Conclusions
- 10/Price Elasticities in the Hearing Room: The Promise and Limits of Econometric Analyses of Telecommunications Demand
- I. The Structure of an Econometric Study
- II. Econometrics in the Hearing Room: Some Guiding Precepts
- III. Some Pitfalls in Using Econometric Models
- 11/Evaluation and Conclusions
- I. What We Appear to Know About the Structure of Telecommunications Demand
- II. Problem Areas
- III. Demand Analysis in a Competitive/Partially Regulated Environment
- Appendix 1/The Pre-1980 Empirical Literature on Telephone Demand: Access, Local Service, and Interstate Toll
- I. The Demand for Access
- II. The Demand for Local Use
- III. Long-Haul (Interstate) Toll Demand
- Appendix 2/The Pre-1980 Empirical Literature on Telephone Demand: Intrastate Toll, WATS and Private Line, Coin, Etc.
- I. Intrastate Toll Demand
- II. WATS and Private Line
- III. Coin Stations
- IV. Vertical Services
- V. The Impact of Service-Connection and Other Nonrecurring Charges
- VI. International Demand
- VII. Yellow-Pages Advertising
- VIII. Noneconometric Approaches to Forecasting Telephone Demand
- Appendix 3/Network Externality and the Demand for Residential Long-Distance Telephone Service: A Comment
- I. A Model of Toll Demand
- II. Isolation of the Network Externality
- III. Conclusions
- 1/Introduction and Overview
- I. Background
- II. Recent Methodological Developments
- III. Conferences and Special Volumes
- IV. Plan of Book
- 2/The Theory of Telephone Demand I: Basic Results
- I. Some Basic Considerations
- II. Recent Contributions to the Theory of Telephone Demand
- III. Consumption Externalities and Communities of Interest
- IV A Framework for Analyzing Telephone Demand
- V. Relationships Between Price and Income Elasticities for Access and Usage
- VI. Option Demand
- 3/The Theory of Telephone Demand II: Extensions of Basic Results
- I. The Duration and Distance Dimensions of Telephone Demand
- II. Time-of-Day Pricing
- III. Operator-Handled Versus Direct-Dialed Calls
- IV. Some Further Dynamics
- V. The Usage of Price Deflated Revenues
- VI. Firm vs Market Elasticities
- VII. Logistic Approaches to Forecasting
- VIII. Concluding Comments
- 4/Business Telecommunications Demand
- I. Some Basic Considerations