Empirical Analysis on the Regional Competitiveness of Telecom Industry Based on Principal Component Analysis

  • Yue Liu
  • XinLin Ouyang
Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 209)

Abstract

Telecom industry plays an important role in the modem economic and social development, in order to know China’s telecommunications competitive situation. This paper builds the telecom industry international competitiveness evaluation index system from four aspects. Using principal component analysis we evaluate the competitiveness of telecom industry in 31 provinces of China, autonomous and municipalities from 2004-2008. Evaluation results show that the competitiveness of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou ranks 1st,2ndand3nd. From the angle of each area ,the competitiveness of East is much higher than in the Central and West, Central area slightly higher than West, but East have the largest internal diversity, West and Central area have a small difference in internal diversity.

Keywords

Regional telecom Industry Competitiveness Principal component analysis 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yue Liu
    • 1
  • XinLin Ouyang
    • 1
  1. 1.College of Economics and ManagementChongqing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChongqingChina

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