Leonard Waverman

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth and find evidence of a significant positive causal link, especially when a critical mass of telecommunications infrastructure is present, in 21 OECD countries over a twenty-year period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors untersucht, how Telekommunikations-Infrastruktur auf die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung ausubt.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of public ownership and regulatory agency independence on regulatory outcomes in EU telecommunications were examined, and the authors found that public ownership of the incumbent positively affects these interconnect rates, and suggest that governments influence regulatory outcome in favor of incumbents in which they are substantially invested.

TL;DR: The tradeoff between mandated standards and market-driven standards in the wireless telecommunications industry is discussed and the theoretical advantages of each approach are discussed, institutional background on the developments of 1G–2G is provided and the implications for the current debate about 3G standards are discussed.

TL;DR: This is a report on a major rule promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission, entitled “Promoting Efficient Use of Spectrum Through Elimination of Barriers to the Development of Secondary Markets” (FCC 03-113), which was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on November 25, 2003.