Abstract This study investigates the efficiency of 17 well-known telecom operators in the Asia-Pacific region from 2007 to 2016, dividing the sample into mobile jumping and non-mobile jumping countries. Mobile jumping countries refer to the phenomenon that people directly become mobile communication users without experiencing the transition stage from using fixed-line telephones to mobile phones. Adopting the slack-based DEA model of Tone (2001) and total factor input efficiency (TFIE) of Hu and Wang (2006), we compute the operating efficiency and disaggregate input efficiency of these Asia-Pacific telecom operators. The results show that the TFIE scores for the total assets among the companies operating in mobile jumping countries significantly differ from those in non-mobile jumping countries, revealing that companies operating in countries with a lower penetration rate for fixed lines are more likely to have higher total asset efficiency. This research is one of the first efforts to investigate differences in efficiency between mobile jumping economies and non-mobile jumping economies in the Asia-Pacific region.

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移动跳跃更有效率吗？亚太主要电信公司的证据

摘要本研究调查了2007年至2016年亚太地区17家知名电信运营商的效率，将样本分为移动跳跃国家和非移动跳跃国家。移动跳跃国家指的是人们直接成为移动通信用户的现象，而没有经历从使用固定电话到移动电话的过渡阶段。采用Tone（2001）的基于松弛的DEA模型以及Hu and Wang（2006）的全要素输入效率（TFIE），我们计算了这些亚太电信运营商的运营效率并分解了输入效率。结果显示，在流动跳跃国家/地区运营的公司中，总资产的TFIE得分与非流动跳跃国家/地区中的公司明显不同，这表明，在固网普及率较低的国家/地区运营的公司更有可能拥有更高的总资产效率。这项研究是调查亚太地区移动跳跃经济体与非移动跳跃经济体之间效率差异的第一项工作之一。