Showing papers in "Telecommunications Policy in 2010"

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how a promise to deliver the ''real Internet'' was a core part of Apple's original strategy, and that iPhone users quickly showed an interest in web browsing disproportionate to any other mobile phone in the US or Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between economic growth, telecommunications development and productivity growth of the telecommunications sector in different countries and regions of the world and assessed the impact of mobile telecommunications on economic growth and telecommunications productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically investigated to what extent different forms of regulated competition explain the international differences in broadband penetration and showed that inter-platform competition has been a main driver of broadband penetration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the process of Internet diffusion across the world using a panel of 214 countries during the period 1990-2004 and found that the diffusion process is characterized by a different S-shaped curve in each group.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of public and private investments in broadband infrastructures is discussed and a qualitative evolvement in the view on the public sector role in expanding broadband infrastructure is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine individual and joint effects of regulatory and other policy instruments on the investment incentives in advanced communications, and conceptualize governance as a problem of ''tuning'' a highly dynamic, adaptive system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical review of the ladder of investment approach by setting out its two underlying assumptions and discussing their validity with references to the related industrial organization literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review how justifications for public action that would apply to any economic activity area have modelled the public-private relationship in the telecommunications sector and focus on the analysis of the new spaces for public private collaboration that are currently opening up.

TL;DR: Within a few days of each other in early 2009, the national governments of Australia and New Zealand announced separate plans to invest heavily in advanced broadband networks as discussed by the authors, which demonstrate a shift away from the liberalization and privatization policy consensus of the last two decades; shared convictions about the anticipated size of fast broadband's economic and social benefits, and about the need for wholesale-only fixed line network operation to maximize those benefits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the unified theory of acceptance and the use of technology (UTAUT) model with constructs from the innovation diffusion theory (IDT) such as compatibility, relative advantage and social influence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of the Amazon EC2 platform using micro-benchmarks and kernels and conclude that the current cloud services need an order of magnitude in performance improvement to be useful to the scientific community.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how the ladder of investment is affected by NGAs, taking account of both the changed network architecture, which may remove the unbundled local loop access point, and problems associated with providing an incentive to take the copper network out of use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role and function of public-private interplay in the development of municipal broadband initiatives in the broadband sector is examined, and a comparative analysis examines the steps involved in these initiatives and the strengths and weaknesses of joint public and private activities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey instrument was developed aiming at assessing standards impacts from the point of view of stakeholders in the standard development process, and the survey was administered to members of ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute), ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and CEN/ISSS (European Committee for Standardisation/Information Society Standardisation System) standards committees.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the various dimensions of choice over where and how to intervene in the broadband market and consider three nationwide broadband plans in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, in each of which industrial policy appears to be the major objective combined with equity goals.

TL;DR: In this article, a bootstrapped robust data envelopment analysis (BRDEA) model is proposed to measure the efficiency of telecommunication companies, which is capable of handling different issues such as the uncertainty in data or sampling errors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an alternative measure of residential broadband availability by using the December 2005 FCC data and individual broadband adoption data from Forrester Research, and they estimated a relationship between the number of providers in a ZIP code and the level of broadband availability in the ZIP code.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the costs of contracting increase markedly when short-term focused electricity retail operations are separated from longer-term generation infrastructure investments, leading to thin contract markets, increased hold-up risk, perverse wholesale risk management incentives, and bankruptcies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of external knowledge search behavior on productivity and innovative performance in the Korean ICT manufacturing sector based on firm-level data from the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI).

TL;DR: The concept of universal service obligation (USO) has been around for decades; however, its definition continues to change as mentioned in this paper, and the concept is becoming bifurcated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that interpreting the concept of essential facilities too broadly is likely to lead to insufficient incentives to invest in the future, and that it is thus advisable to get back to a narrow interpretation of this doctrine, in order to strike the right balance between the incentives to engage in infrastructure-based competition and the goal of boosting service-based competitive in the short run.

TL;DR: This study analyzes and model the time-varying behavior of failures in large-scale distributed systems, and derives a model that focuses on the peak failure periods occurring in real large- scale distributed systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make predictions about the regulatory regime in a regulation 3.0 which incorporates many elements (though using a different terminology) of the traditional regulatory system-universal service, common carriage, cross-subsidies, structural restrictions, industrial policy, even price and profit controls.

TL;DR: The spatial distribution of broadband provision in the United States for 2005-2007 is explored and a mathematical programming approach is utilized for comparing the relative efficiencies of ZIP code areas in acquiring broadband service given their demand-side socio-economic and demographic determinants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed hypotheses concerning the presence or absence of impacts of mobile Internet use intensity and circumstances of MI use (e.g., device type, tariff scheme) on the demand for SMS and mobile voice telephony at the individual customer level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a web-based conjoint-type questionnaire to examine empirically user preference for a hypothetical Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) unlock situation in Japan's mobile phone market.

TL;DR: Two prioritization models based on quality function deployment (QFD) are developed to rank the strategic actions (SAs), or the ECs of Iran mobile cellular telecommunication, and have the ability to capture the vagueness of human thinking style.

TL;DR: In this article, the degree of substitutability of frequencies with or without regulatory constraints is examined, and the authors conclude that the latter are a major source of limitations on substitutable frequencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the impact of competition and privatization on the telecom market ultimately depends on the political endowments of Chinese society and argue that current telecom restructuring was largely driven by domestic agendas.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach for measuring inter-urban connectivity based on a city's insertion in Internet backbone networks is proposed, which is illustrated through a systematic comparison of the position of European cities in both types of networks.