Showing papers in "Telecommunications Policy in 2001"

TL;DR: In this article, a two-staged model was proposed to test hypotheses suggesting that customer retention, loyalty, and satisfaction should be treated as differential constructs which are causally interlinked.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated Internet connectivity in rural regions, looking specifically at four states in the US and found that remote and sparsely populated areas typically lack the telecommunications infrastructure for reliable and fast Internet connections.

TL;DR: This article found that cross-national differences in the numbers of Internet users and hosts have to do with favorable conditions for entrepreneurship and investment and found little evidence that competition and privatization of telecommunications services matters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce issues that relate regulation and innovation in the telecommunications industry, and discuss the major issues pertaining to the relation between innovation and pricing on the one hand, and innovation and unbundling on the other.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of China's prospective membership status in the WTO on its telecommunications regulatory reform and industrial liberalization and explored the institutional barriers preventing China from fully implementing the WTO Agreements in this sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for rural and remote ICTs is proposed describing the interrelationships among policy, organizational, community, and technological dimensions, and a hypothesis highlighting the role of mediating organizations to secure affordable and relevant ICT services and applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the topic of unbundled access to the local loop in areas which show characteristics of non-contestable natural monopolies outside the large cities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the interdependence of telecommunications manufacturing, services, and user industries in the Mississippi Delta region of the US to understand the social and economic prospects of poorer rural areas of the United States as advanced technologies rapidly proliferate.

TL;DR: In this article, the Ministry of Information and Communication's provisional plan for quality evaluation without price deregulation runs the risk of quality over-provision that is sub-optimal, and may further distort the business performance of carriers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine issues in auction design that contributed to the delay and review the key elements in the design process namely a coherent regulatory framework, choice of service areas, flexibility for service area consolidation, standards and their role, convergence, managing public service regulation and managing defaults.

TL;DR: Ghana has positively responded to global restructuring in the telecoms sector by enabling the citizens to enjoy some of the benefits of the restructuring process as discussed by the authors, however, poor quality of service and the seeming inability of the National Communication Authority to deal with problems of the sector appear to have crowded out the benefits from liberalisation.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of surveys by INTUG in 1999 and 2000 gathered comparative data on international roaming charges in Europe and showed that the complexity of the charges, the backroom negotiations and other factors demonstrate that this is very far from being a competitive market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the regulator and incumbent-entrant interactions explicitly in order to understand how the structure of the voice services might evolve under different regulatory frameworks, and suggest that a mix of infrastructure and service competition like the one promoted in Netherlands, stimulates investment by incumbents and entrants alike and offers better consumer benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the impact of scarcity of frequency spectrum on the performance of the mobile telecommunications industry and discuss the trade off between ex ante extraction of oligopoly rents and market entry of firms.

TL;DR: In this article, an appropriate regulatory framework is also one of the most important factors in settling effective network interconnection arrangements, while network externality remains a concern for subscribers who are searching for demand-side economies of scope.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the profitability of mobile telephone carriers and the degree to which cost is reduced through M&A, thereby obtaining principal information on the economic incentives for industry restructuring.

TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory analysis of orders issued by bureaus of the US Federal Communications Commission shows overlap in the issues on which each provides rulings, and they propose an explanation for the difficulties that the FCC has had in adapting to converging information industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the evolution of local access competition and relate this to the role of regulation and the question of facilities- vs. services-based entry, and argue that the introduction of new market restructuring initiatives requires a larger involvement by regulators, particularly in the early stages, rather than just a reliance on general competition rules.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used multiattribute utility theory as a basis for obtaining value judgments regarding strategic management of radio spectrum for mobile communications and applied it to a specific case study of Korea.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the universal service proposition viz a viz these conditions by analyzing Nigeria's attempts to provide telephone service since the country's independence in 1960 and suggested various strategies that the country should use to stimulate critical mass and achieve universal access.

TL;DR: The article outlines the principles of both the DTV and spectrum auctions regulation and shows the links between both areas of telecommunications regulation and suggests that the analog switch-off is a unique opportunity to reconsider current spectrum policies.

TL;DR: In the emerging 3G competition, the importance of geopolitics and public strategies has become secondary to that of the marketplace, as a result, the Finnish success drivers are dissipating in the new environment as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the problems that were reported in Europe regarding US spectrum auctions, specifically the declarations of bankruptcy by several winning bidders and overbidding by participants, the enormous revenue shortfall on the WCS block auction, and reports of collusion among bidding participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the Australian universal service obligation in telecommunications to illustrate the unforeseen pitfalls that emerge when the effects of liberalisation threaten to undercut the delivery of a long cherished social objective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess whether these concerns are justified, extending the analysis to review the economic literature on reciprocal setting of termination charges between network operators and conclude that while ex ante regulation of call termination simplifies the work of regulators it does not appear justifiable in all circumstances.

TL;DR: The TRAI's CPP order was overturned by the Supreme Court of India in early 2000, due to lack of jurisdiction as discussed by the authors, and since then, the enabling legislation has been amended.

TL;DR: In this article, a fieldwork conducted in Botswana in the summer of 2000, analyzes several notable aspects of the process of reform and denotes those worthy of emulation by other African states, including participation and protection of domestic telecommunication users, transparency in decision-making, the creation of an independent regulatory agency, and the introduction of competition in the form of private cellular service providers.

TL;DR: In the second half of the 1990s, average prices for US bandwidth in use have fallen little in nominal terms in this paper, while the US economy's strong performance was not accompanied by a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices.