Estimating Households' Demand for Access to and Usage of Wireless and Local Telephone Services

Abstract

Finally, the finding that wireless and local telephone services are substitutes indicates that wireless service is a competing service to local telephone service, especially when households decide to purchase another telephone line. Thus, policy makers and regulators can treat wireless service as a competing provider in the local telephone market. Moreover, the research findings also suggest the use of wireless service as an alternative to local telephone in an effort to promote a universal telephone service to the U.S. households.