Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage

This paper investigates the determinants of disparities in coverage by cell telephone systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. It uses a spatially disaggregated probit for over 990,000 grid cells with adjustments for spatial autocorrelation. Determinants include potential market size (population); cost factor...

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Published in:World development 2009-09, Vol.37 (9), p.1494-1505
Main Authors: Buys, Piet, Dasgupta, Susmita, Thomas, Timothy S., Wheeler, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Africa
Antitrust Issues and Policies: General L400
Cellular phones
Cellular telephones
Choice of Technology O140
Communication systems
Competition
Competition policy
Correlation analysis
Digital divide
Digital technology
Econometrics
GSM cell phone
Indexes
Industrialization
Information and communication technologies
Information economics
Internet access
Manufacturing and Service Industries
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
Markovian processes
Mobile phones
Monte Carlo simulation
Rural development
Simulation
Spatial analysis
spatial probit
Studies
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) GSM cell phone spatial probit Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) competition policy
Supply & demand
Technology
Telecommunications L960
Telephones
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