书目名称 | Forecasting the Internet |
副标题 | Understanding the Ex |
编辑 | David G. Loomis,Lester D. Taylor |
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丛书名称 | Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy |
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描述 | David O. Loomis Illinois State University The explosive growth of the Internet has caught most industry experts off guard. While data communications was expected to be the "wave of the future," few industry observers foresaw how rapid the change in focus from voice communications towards data would be. Understanding the data communications revolution has become an urgent priority for many in the telecommunications industry. Demand analysis and forecasting are critical tools to understanding these trends for both Internet access and Internet backbone service. Businesses have led residential customers in the demand for data services, but residential demand is currently increasing exponentiall y. Even as business demand for data communications is becoming better understood, residential broadband access demand is still largely unexplored. Cable modems and ADSL appear to be the current residential broadband choices yet demand elasticities and econometric model-based forecasts for these services are not currently available. The responsiveness of customers to price and income changes and customer‘s perceptions of the tradeoff in product characteristics between cable modems and ADSL is lar |
出版日期 | Book 2002 |
关键词 | Internet; Planning; e-commerce; growth; networks |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0861-8 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-5275-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-0861-8Series ISSN 2730-7468 Series E-ISSN 2730-7476 |
issn_series | 2730-7468 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002 |