Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction and Overview. 2. Theory of Telephone Demand I: Basic Results. 3. Theory of Telephone Demand II: Extensions of Basic Results. 4. Business Telecommunications Demand. 5. Recent Studies of Residential Access Demand. 6. Recent Studies of Toll Demand. 7. The Demand for Local Calls and Related Local Services. 8. Business Telephone System Demand, Total-Bill and Socio-Demographic Effects. 9. Consumption Externalities. 10. Price Elasticities in the Hearing Room: the Promise and Limits of Econometric Analyses of Telecommunications Demand. 11. Evaluation and Conclusions. Appendix 1: The Pre-1980 Empirical Literature on Telephone Demand Access, Local Service, and Interstate Toll. Appendix 2: The Pre-1980 Empirical Literature on Telephone Demand Intrastate Toll, WATS and Private Line, Coin, etc. Appendix 3: A Model of Toll Demand. Bibliography. Index.