Demand for telephone usage in India

Das, Pinaki; Srinivasan, P.

doi:10.1016/s0167-6245(99)00014-1

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“…Previous work on fixed telephony demand in India has been done by Das and Srinivasan (1999). They give an estimation of price elasticities and their data also allowed to distinguish between local and long distance calls price elasticities.…”

Section: Telecommunications In Indiamentioning

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Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

Biancini

2011

Telecommunications Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price elasticity of demand for mainlines might be sensibly higher than the levels usually found in developed countries, while the crucial role of income and other sociodemographic variables seems to be confirmed. We also study the impact of cellular penetration, identifying a (positive) network effect in low penetration areas and some evidence of substitution (displacement) in the most developed ones. We finally analyze the supply side of the market, trying to assess the impact of market competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no significant impact in the less developed ones. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Code: L96, L51, O12.

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Section: Telecommunications In Indiamentioning

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Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

Biancini

2011

Telecommunications Policy

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“…Heald 5 indicated that cross-subsidies existed in normal or monopoly enterprises, and proposed two methods for measuring cross-subsidies. Das and Srinivasan 6 discussed the optimal resource subsidy by improving the price-cost and long distance calls to achieve cross-subsidies. Rosston and Wimmer 7 discussed the stealth subsidy for phone services in the United States.…”

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Electricity subsidy reform in China

Wang

Lin

2016

Energy & Environment

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China’s rapid economic growth significantly drives the country’s electricity demand. Electricity tariff in China is regulated by the government and is generally priced at a low level, leading to substantial electricity subsidy. With increasing coal price in recent years, the Chinese government’s low electricity tariff policy has led to huge financial losses for power companies, which directly results in electricity shortage. Therefore, the reform of electricity subsidy is the most important aspect of energy price reform in China. The reform is very difficult, as it is closely associated with people’s daily consumption and production activities. This article adopts a price-gap approach to estimate the scale of electricity subsidy with or without external costs in China. The results indicate that the current subsidy is substantial. In 2010, electricity subsidy with external costs in China amounted to 520.249 billion CNY, accounting for 1.3% of the year’s GDP. Despite the substantial electricity subsidy, low-income households did not benefit much. Therefore, there is need to design a sound electricity tariff subsidy and initiate subsidy-reducing strategies to improve efficiency and equality.

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“…In recent years, through boom in mobile data services as well as liberalization of telecommunication services, we have witnessed increased consumer expectations and additional pressures on telecom operators to provide wide range of services at diminishing prices. By focusing on developing countries, a series of studies have found a link between telecommunication sector development and the overall economic growth (Das & Srinivasan, 1999;Waverman et al, 2005;Thompson & Garbacz 2007;Biancini, 2011;Narayana, 2011;Bacchiocchi et al, 2011;etc). With the intention to serve as comprehensive outlook at the key elements of telecommunication sector in Bosnia and to some extent by anticipating dramatic change in sector structure and dynamics with the upcoming privatization of the largest operator in the sector, this paper provides a snapshot of sector structure and regulation.…”

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecommunication Sector Outlook

Zaimović

Arnela

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The upcoming privatization of two remaining telecom operators in Bosnia, and not so recent privatization of one of the incumbent, will create dynamic and changing sector environment for all participants. At the same time the investors are scanning the sector trying to find the right approach and the market niche for more competitive start. In our overview we have looked at regulatory status, core services figures, followed by financial overview for incumbent operators in the past decade, as well as mobile users' attitudes in carrier section. What we will show is that sector development and the expansion of consumers' base is far from over. The services offered are still at rudimental level, and the potential owners of incumbent operators as well as new entrants will have considerable room for development. Financial analysis has shown that revenue for all three incumbent operators is stagnating in the last years, while the small private operators are experiencing steady growth. Although BH Telecom is still the largest company in the sector, it dose face slight decline in net profit while its biggest competitor -Telecom Srpske in 2013 had biggest ROE. We find that BH Telecom and Telecom Srpske had unexploited franchise growth and competiveness potential. We assessed the intrinsic value of all three companies stocks by application of Franchise Factor Model and find that BH Telecom stock price is in equilibrium, Telecom Srpske stock is underpriced and Croatian Telecom is stock strongly overpriced. Finally, the analyses of consumers' perspective have revealed existence of network effect in mobile market and the strong competition between two market leaders. In all, BiH telecommunication sector is still in its expanding phase and the potential owners of state operators as well as new entrants will have competitive well regulated market.

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Demand for telephone usage in India

Cited by 13 publications

References 6 publications

Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

Electricity subsidy reform in China

Bosnia and Herzegovina Telecommunication Sector Outlook

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