An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Voice Service and SMS: A Structural Model

• Main Authors: KIM, Youngsoo, Telang, Rahul, Vogt, William B., Krishnan, Ramayya
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: wireless communication; price elasticity; short message service (SMS); structural model; nonlinear tariff; substitutes versus complements; policy experiments; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/785; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1784/viewcontent/Empirical_Analysis_of_Mobile_Voice_KIM.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In addition to the wireless telephony boom, a similar exponentially increasing trend in wireless data service—for example, short message service (SMS)—is visible as technology advances. We develop a structural model to examine user demand for voice service and SMS. Specifically, we measure the own-...