Telephone Pricing Structures: The Effects on Universal Service

Paul Cain and James MacDonald

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1991, vol. 3, issue 4, 293-308

Abstract: The authors use 1987 data to study the household demand for access to the telephone system. Previous analyses find demand to be highly inelastic and, therefore, predict that local rate increases will have little impact on the goal of providing universal telephone service. They estimate that price has a considerably stronger effect on access demand, especially at low incomes, and argue that elasticities increased in the 1980s. But their evidence also suggests that the structure of telephone rates matter: where local measured service is available, changes in flat rate prices have no effect on access demand. Copyright 1991 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1991
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