Showing papers in "Telecommunications Policy in 2002"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use recent evidence to illustrate the evolving telecommunications value chains and market structure, examine the underlying theoretical and practical reasons for such changes, and highlight the strategic implications for the various players involved.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the financial and operating performance of 31 national telecommunication companies in 25 countries that were fully or partially privatized through public share offering and found that the financial performance of telecommunications companies improves significantly after privatization, but that a sizable fraction of the observed improvement results from regulatory changes, alone or in combination with major ownership changes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the elements of the evolving value chain and its major players, and how emerging technological solutions are unleashing the potential of the value chain, and also describe how emerging technologies can be used to realize the full promise of mobile wireless.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the key factors that will shape this transition and the challenges faced by the main stakeholders, including the new industry value chain, corporate resources and skills, and the economic and regulatory context of UMTS.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined cross-country evidence to discover if teledensity (the number of telephones per capita) has a pro-poor growth impact and found that, historically, telecommunications rollout has had a positive and significant impact on increasing inequality and little impact on quality of life variables.

TL;DR: The paper provides a general discussion of the development of GSM and presents a database on the essential IPRs in the GSM standard, which has been compiled on the basis of international patent statistics, and the data that manufacturers have supplied to European Telecommunications Standards Institute, the European standardization body responsible for defining the G SM standard.

TL;DR: This paper introduces a new revenue generating business model based on a case study of the BTAirwave service that provides flexible IT/IS architecture and challenges the current structure of the mobile telecoms sector by proposing a MDSP.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that two gaps typify the flow of knowledge consumed by urban decision-makers: the knowledge gap, namely the uncertainty about the actual impacts of ICT on urban issues, and the communication gap which relates to the biases and noise emanating from the process of communicating knowledge between different actors on potential ICT impacts.

TL;DR: Although there are some important drawbacks in using a qualitative layer model, it is concluded that a sufficient number of key issues are illuminated by it to justify its use.

TL;DR: The author argues that at least part of the success of the Bluetooth initiative is due to the structure and design of the standardization alliance that promoted Bluetooth.

TL;DR: Analysis of the design of the first wireless systems as infrastructure making shows that managing critical relationships with regulators, correct timing, and effective and continuous meshing of both entrepreneurs’ and technologists’ concerns were typical for systems that achieved high momentum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze AOL's IM service and the ability to leverage merger assets into future market power in the context of the FCC condition; counterarguments are considered and larger lessons for new economy antitrust are drawn from this experience and analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, a decision tree analysis (DTA) is used to address multiple possible outcomes and the DCF of the expected value of this tree is used for the evaluation.

TL;DR: The AT&T Bell System invented cellular telephony and deployed the world's first prototype cellular system as mentioned in this paper, however, neither AT&Ts nor its spin-off Regional Bell Operating Companies capitalized on that technological lead, and cellular communications in the US slipped behind that in other developed countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the current structure and location patterns of Internet infrastructure hardware in the USA and how content distribution networks and peer-to-peer networks have disrupted traditional information location.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison is made of the main European public telecommunications organizations (PTOs) in terms of their operational efficiency using data envelopment analysis, a well-known quantitative technique from operational research.

TL;DR: The spatial dimensions of Internet activity are explored for the state of Ohio and results suggest that existing telecommunication infrastructure and educational institutions also play significant roles in the level of Internet-related activity for the region.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of the public telecom operator (PTO), as a competent technology procurer, has played a hitherto neglected, key role in this success and growth prior to the mid-1980s, after which Nokia achieved its international breakthrough.

TL;DR: In this article, a dynamic adding-and-downgrading model was proposed to explore the interaction between FDI investors and host developing nations and enriches the current product cycle theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the average effect on acquirers' shareholder value is not significantly different from zero, which confirms a paradox found by previous studies: bidding firms’ shareholders do not benefit from takeovers.

TL;DR: The conclusion is that MVNOs offering complex bundles of innovative value-added services will probably not be competitively sustainable as separate firms, only as more tightly integrated partners of radio-based mobile network operators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the standardisation and building of the Nordic mobile telephone system (NMT) as practical design work and discuss the effect of the NMT on the Nordic telecommunication industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence from the airline industry that these governance changes occurred after this industry was deregulated in the US in 1978, and preliminary evidence on telecommunications firms indicates that similar changes are beginning to occur in the governance structures of telecom firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the regulatory incentives created by government policies aimed at promoting the transition to digital TV in the US, France, and the UK are compared. And the authors argue that US policies have aggravated coordination problems and even created incentives for terrestrial broadcasters to retard the transition in order to receive compensations from wireless telecommunications providers for vacating frequencies before the statutory deadline.

TL;DR: Open access as discussed by the authors allows ISPs to use a cable operator's broadband connection under regulated terms and conditions, but it does not guarantee that ISPs will use their control over the last mile to limit consumer choice and stifle innovation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the debate over eliminating sector-specific regulation for telecommunications mergers and then address the prospects for a more general retreat from industry-specific regulations of telecommunications.

TL;DR: Based on five key economic characteristics in the Korean mobile market, a simple model for double marginalization in the telecommunication market is introduced in this paper, and two alternatives are proposed to effectively remedy this double marginalisation issue.