Abstract
The market in the telecom industry is often segmented into three categories namely long distance, local and wireless services. In their survey, Green and Teece (1998) used this approach to study the telecom market segmentations of the United Kingdom, Australia, United States and New Zealand. In line with its policy of openness, transparency, fairness and participatory regulation, the commission informed stakeholders in September 2012 of its intent to conduct a study on the level of competition in the relevant markets of Nigeria’s Telecommunications Industry. It held meetings with a cross section of industry operators. This study shows that as the availability of mobile phone technology increases, the volume of import increases and more technology is transferred. Thus, the findings by Freund and Weinhold (2002, 2004) and Arrow (1969) are reconfirmed by the study’s empirical result. Therefore, technology helps to reduce distributional inequality of economic benefits. In fact, this does not necessarily imply reduction in inequality among rich and poor classes of these societies in the respective rich and poor states. The finding suggests that the availability of mobile phone technology increases state economic growth by different marginal weights. However, these marginal weights statistical significance across the states in both 90% and 95% confidence intervals could not be ascertained because the covariance has to be estimated using bootstrap. It is therefore left for future research.
Highlights
The Nigerian telecom industry is a non-manufacturing industry that passes different stages of growth and development in its lifecycle
With the above analysis at-hand in this study, the current research study will attempt to investigate the effect of mobile phone technology on transfer of technology and economic growth
Using the industry-level data, we studied the effect of mobile phone technology on technology transfer measured by the volume of imports for seventeen industries for the time period of 1999 to 2017
Summary
The Nigerian telecom industry is a non-manufacturing industry that passes different stages of growth and development in its lifecycle It started as a natural monopoly but later opened up to competition. The market in the telecom industry is often segmented into three categories namely long distance, local and wireless services. In their survey, Green and Teece (1998) used this approach to study the telecom market segmentations of the United Kingdom, Australia, United States and New Zealand. Nigeria’s Communications Commission in 2010 carried out what they called “a Determination of Dominance” They considered two methods of phone communication in Nigeria, namely the mobile telephone and the International Internet Connectivity (IIC) methods.
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