Pricing of mobile telephone services in Mexico
Description
he data is used to analyze the evolution of prepaid mobile telephone plans in Mexico and to estimate how plan characteristics affect prices. The dataset is derived from the official IFT reports on Comparable Information of Plans and Rates for Telecommunications Services from 2017 through 2024. It includes 221 prepaid mobile telephone plans offered by the four largest mobile operators in Mexico. Each observation represents a prepaid mobile plan available in a given year. Each plan is characterized by its nominal price, daily price, duration in days, included mobile data measured in megabytes, and whether it includes unlimited voice minutes and SMS. The dataset also includes a weighting factor, a Telcel dummy variable, and year dummy variables from 2017 to 2024. The variable UT&M is a dummy variable equal to one when the plan includes unlimited voice minutes and SMS, and zero otherwise.