This paper studied rural telecom markets in China＇s 12 western provinces with Seemingly Unrelated Regression （SUR） models. Using two regress analysis of telecom business income and rural telephone permeation rate i...This paper studied rural telecom markets in China＇s 12 western provinces with Seemingly Unrelated Regression （SUR） models. Using two regress analysis of telecom business income and rural telephone permeation rate in 12 western provinces, we got some new conclusions such as, the installation and usage of telephones among farmers are affected by several variables, and income is only one of them. According to our data analysis, variables influencing the installation and usage of telephones are not the same. Different variables exert different degrees of influence in the provinces.展开更多
基金This workis supported by Ministry of Education P.R.C(03036) ,and Key Laboratory of Information Management and Information Economics, Min-istry of Education P.R.C(F04-22) .
文摘This paper studied rural telecom markets in China＇s 12 western provinces with Seemingly Unrelated Regression （SUR） models. Using two regress analysis of telecom business income and rural telephone permeation rate in 12 western provinces, we got some new conclusions such as, the installation and usage of telephones among farmers are affected by several variables, and income is only one of them. According to our data analysis, variables influencing the installation and usage of telephones are not the same. Different variables exert different degrees of influence in the provinces.
