Development Of Telecommunications Infrastructure Research Articles

Factor prices, factor substitution, and the relative demand for telecommunications across US industries

Often derived demand for telecommunications services is analyzed by means of highly aggregated frameworks. Such frameworks have sharp limitations in their capacity to provide useful information about interrelated factor demands and, in particular, the interrelationships between telecommunications and other factor inputs. Without such information it is impossible to address comprehensively issues of concern to policy makers regarding the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure and economic development, In this paper, a model involving a comprehensive set of sectoral translog cost equations has been applied to study various hypotheses concerning interrelationships between the derived demand for telecommunications and the demand for other factor inputs, Specifically, the empirical findings suggest that the nominal sectoral telecommunications cost shares are not positively related to the level of wages. This finding is opposite to a recent finding reported for the Italian economy. The results also suggest that increases in the price of labor tend to drive down the nominal cost shares of telecommunications. Finally, the study indicates that increases in the price of capital will tend to increase nominal sectoral telecommunications cost shares because of the existence of strong substitution possibilities. These findings have important implications for the role of telecommunications infrastructure in economic development.

ASEAN telecommunications: Infrastructure, investment and regulatory policies1

The ASEAN countries (Association of South East Asian Nations) represent a microcosm of countries in various stages of development. As such, they provide the opportunity to examine and compare telecommunications infrastructure development, investment, and regulatory policy trends similar to other countries. The recent moves towards privatization and increasing private participation in the telecommunications sector in the ASEAN region cover a diverse set of issues that similarly affect many other developing countries and newly industrializing economies. The telecommunications sector is different in each of the ASEAN countries and each must necessarily respond to its own social, political and economic needs. However, as a region, ASEAN provides an example, of the trends towards different forms of deregulation, liberalization of markets and privatization of the telecommunications authorities.

The development of a state telecommunications infrastructure: A survey of telephone companies and large users

This article examines the development of a telecommunications infrastructure at the state level by presenting the results of a survey of telephone companies and large users of telecommunication services in Texas. This analysis suggests that telecommunications-intensive organizations are increasingly investing resources in establishing their own telecommunications systems and services. This development presents a threat to local telephone companies, and offers some interesting information to policymakers who are considering how to change their own telecommunications infrastructure.