Telephone Calls and Communication Barriers: The Case of the Netherlands

Piet Rietveld and Leon Janssen

The Annals of Regional Science, 1990, vol. 24, issue 4, 307-18

Abstract: This paper examines barriers to communication in telephone traffic. It is found that telephone communication between The Netherlands and most other European countries is about 30% of the level it would achieve if these countries happened to be regions in the same nation. For communication with Eastern Europe, the even smaller figure of about 4% resulted. It is also shown that telephone calls are closely related to other kinds of spatial interaction, especially trade flows.

Date: 1990
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