Showing papers in "Telecommunications Policy in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of the individual's decision to perform cross-border e-commerce (CBeC) are explored using a standard neoclassical utility maximization framework, and logistic regression techniques.

TL;DR: The proposed framework for the use of citizen-centered big data analysis to drive governance intelligence in smart cities from two perspectives: urban governance issues and data-analysis algorithms is synthesized and validated in a case study on blood donation governance in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed regional and country level determinants of the regional digital divide in the EU, based on panel data and using the multilevel analysis- the three level random slope model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview and a conceptual framework of governance and economics of smart cities, focusing on issues of transparency and accountability to the citizens, and the impact on local economy.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed a framework for comparing smart governance in different institutional and technological contexts, and conducted comparative and discourse analyses to understand the similarities and differences of smart governance practices in selected Western countries and China.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the leadership lessons to be drawn from the success of 2G-GSM in relation to its successors 3G and 4G, and describe two stylized images of possible futures of 5G, called "Evolution" and "Revolution", as input to the policy debate on the options for leadership with 5G.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the effect of computer penetration on rural residents' income and showed that the effect is at least doubled over the average effect estimated from instrument variables method, once the digital divide causes are removed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantify the relationship between higher broadband speeds and the growth rates in important economic outcomes in U.S. counties including jobs, personal income, and labor earnings, and expose the potential for severe selection bias in studies of broadband's economic impact.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on linking proposed smart city strategies to smart village policies to ensure that rural youth have improved opportunities for employment through ICT initiatives to ensure digital inclusion, using primary surveys undertaken in India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that after three decades of stability in the mobile market, there is now the prospect of significant change in the vertical and horizontal structure of the market place.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a paradigmatic change in competition policy is needed and empirically under way to cope with the challenges posed by economically strong online platforms and their big-data-based business models.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the Chinese state has integrated information and communication technologies (ICTs) in its formal policies and its informal rules in China's financial development since 1991.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined differences in fixed location broadband adoption rates among households of various demographic and socio-economic characteristics and in different geographic locations utilizing the FCC's census tract level adoption data, demographic data from American Community Survey and the census block level broadband availability data from NTIA.

TL;DR: A socio-technical analysis framework is used to examine the potential impact of the 2016 Cybersecurity Law on e-government services in China and identifies the factors that are likely to affect e- government operations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an economic assessment of zero-rating offers in the context of mobile internet access services and draw six lessons: (1) Zero-rating can have several different characteristics that crucially affect their economic and welfare assessment, thus, regulatory interventions must be based on a careful case-by-case analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the contribution of modern communication infrastructure characterized by high speed broadband access network on the productivity growth, production structure and factor demands for US industries and for the aggregate economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the complexity and dynamism of 5G and the wide-ranging socio-economic impact that its adoption and roll-out will have on the telecommunications industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how rural broadband initiatives and regional governments interact in their ventures to provide superfast broadband to rural communities, finding that even when governments come up with supportive policies for citizens' initiatives, initiatives still experience governmental efforts as constraining factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the average cumulative royalty yield, the sum total of patent royalty payments earned by licensors, divided by the total value of mobile phones shipped, in the world mobile phone industry between 2007 and 2016, and identify, with varying accuracy, 39 potential licensors in the smartphone value chain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the experiences gained in a hold-up situation in PPPs in other infrastructures (e.g. roading) with the UFB context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze whether non-discrimination obligations for dominant online platforms are warranted from an economic point of view, and recommend to impose proportionate transparency rules for dominant platforms in order to facilitate the identification of actual misconduct and legal enforcement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and explore the factors affecting the entry and the success of utilities in the EU broadband market, through the comparison of four case studies from four EU countries (Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK).

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of a 90% reduction in mobile termination rates (MTRs) are evaluated over the period between 2009 and 2017 in South Africa in terms of prepaid prices and quality-adjusted postpaid prices.

TL;DR: The Rural Remote Broadband Systems (RRBS) program is a unique Canadian initiative to provide broadband access to unserved and underserved regions via fixed wireless service operating on unassigned television frequencies in the 512-608 MHz and 614-698 MHz bands.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate whether the 2013 reform had an impact on household fixed internet adoption and to what extent Mexican households, classified into ten wealth groups, had adopted internet.

TL;DR: In this paper, a research question addressed in this paper is concerned with the manners in which the general technological progress in mobile communications is characterized and the reasons for the differences in these modes of manifestation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify nine design features of zero-rating arrangements, three characteristics of customer groups targeted by such offers and three background characteristics of the markets for Internet access services and applications which are of special importance in decisions concerning the need to regulate (to abstain from regulating) zerorating practices of mobile network operators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the patterns, distribution dynamics, and the drivers of telecommunications (telecom) services across different states, and applied both parametric and nonparametric econometric techniques to study the distribution dynamics of telecom services across the states.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) in smart society by input-output analysis using the food industry and agriculture as examples, and confirm that such a system has a large economic ripple effect on information sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between transport and telecommunication in developing countries within the broader concept of Smart Cities, using Ghana as a case study, and drawing mainly on secondary data and few institutional surveys, they established that telegraph and telephone facilities, as well as new fiber optic networks are heavily dependent on rights of way of roads and railways in Ghana, as was observed in the advanced countries.