Demand analysis by modeling choice of internet access and IP telephony

International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-26

  Kurosawa, Takeshi ^a   Bolduc, Denis ^b   Ben Akiva, Moshe ^c   Inoue, Akiya ^d   Nishimatsu, Ken ^e   Iwashita, Motoi ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e Sapporo Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internet access; IP telephony; Logit kernel; Mixed logit; Random coefficient discrete choice model

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; FIBER OPTICS; INTERNET TELEPHONY; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; INTERNET ACCESS; IP TELEPHONY; LOGIT KERNEL; MIXED LOGIT;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 84886018334     PISSN: 19355688     EISSN: 19355696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jisss.2011070101     Document Type: Article

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