Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Chen, H.
Author-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name-First: Hong
Author-Name: Pau, L-F.
Author-Name-Last: Pau
Author-Name-First: Louis-François
Author-Person: ppa136
Title: Individual Telecommunications Tariffs in Chinese Communities: History as a Mirror of the Future, and Relevance for Mobile Service Development in China
Abstract: This paper addresses the mobile service pricing and affordability issues in China. Taking history as a mirror, it shows individual tariffs existed at the dawn of telephony. A vision of future mobile services with individual tariffs are formalized which will suit specially well the culture of communities rooted in Chinese traditions. An analysis of current tariff conditions in China, and of technologies developments worldwide, shows community-based indiviudal tariifs will speed up the diffusion of moible services to the majority of populations and benefit both economically and sociologically the development in China.
Creation-Date: 2004-09-10
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/1582/ERS%202004%20057%20LIS.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2004-057-LIS
Classification-JEL: L63, L96, M, O53
Keywords: individual telecommunications tariffs, telecommunication history, wireless communities, wireless services
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:1582