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In the last few years, a global telecommunications revolution has been underway. In particular, the growth in mobile (wireless) phone subscribers has been phenomenal. Numerous factors contribute to the level of telephone utilization within a country. In this paper, we develop a benchmarking approach, which borrows ideas from regression modeling and clustering, in order to identify countries in which we expect mobile phone growth to be substantial. We apply the approach to a data set of 208 countries with telecommunications, socioeconomic, and political variables and discuss the results.
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Callender, J., Golden, B., Lele, S., Wasil, E. (2003). Identifying Investment Opportunities in International Telecommunications Markets Using Regression Models. In: Bhargava, H.K., Ye, N. (eds) Computational Modeling and Problem Solving in the Networked World. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1043-7_15
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