Research on Regional Differences and Convergence of the Efficiency of the Telecommunications Industry

Abstract

The telecommunications industry is the most dynamic growth engines to promote the economic development of China. This paper analyzes the efficiency of China’s telecommunications industry from 2003 to 2009 by DEA. Then we discusses the $\alpha$ and $\beta$ convergence of the efficiency of China’s telecommunications industry by coefficient of variation and wilcoxon signed rank test and Kendall’w test. The discussion concludes that the efficiency of China’s telecommunications industry was influenced by the user scale; regional differences existed in the telecommunications industry market and the factors affecting the efficiency changes in different regions. This paper analyzes the efficiency of China’s telecommunications industry from 2003 to 2009 by DEA. Then we discusses the $\alpha$ and $\beta$ convergence of the efficiency of China’s telecommunications industry by coefficient of variation and wilcoxon signed rank test and Kendall’w test. The results indicated that although the regional differences of the telecommunications industry of China is shrinking, the market is not mature enough and still needs to adopt strict asymmetric regulation policy to promote effective competition and coordinated development of the telecommunication market in China.