Re: Price elasticity of telecom demand

[Vineet Kapur]

One way to test this hypothesis will be to look at the demand for telecoms in a
country like Finland.  In general Finns tend to be a very quiet lot but the
availability of low cost equipment and airtime  has made them one of the biggest
users of mobile phones.

Another way to test this hypothesis will be to look at the growth in the SMS/
text messaging services.



James Sproule wrote:

> The International Telecoms Union in Geneva did a study as to how much
> telephones are used country by country, it seems that usage had little to do
> with how much you charged (Latin countries tended to chat a lot, chilly
> North Europeans were pretty stum).
>
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> Koushik Sekhar
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> Has anyone come across any study on the price elasticity of telecom demand ?
>
> What has been the experience in countries  where  telecom rates dropped by
> as much as 70-80% in a short span ?
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