Telecommunications Policy

This study has been undertaken to determine the effect of mobile phone attributes on their retail market prices. A log-linear hedonic price model was fitted to a total of 348 handsets, for which data were collected about various ...

• We estimated the effect of mobile phone attributes on their retail market prices.

• We measure the welfare effects of switching costs through permanence clauses in the mobiles market in Colombia (2014-2016).

This paper provides a critique of information and communication technology (ICT) policies in developing countries. Based on critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Iranian government discourse in the case of electronic fund transfer at ...

• Achieving high rates of diffusion and adoption does not necessarily mean that ICT policies will reap the expected benefits.

Many countries' policymakers have conducted international price comparisons of mobile telecommunications services to prevent service operators from overcharging subscribers. However, those comparisons have become more complicated ...

• The hedonic pricing models enable quality-adjusted international price comparisons.

This study examines whether telecommunications infrastructure promotes economic growth in countries with better access to education compared to those with less access. Using a panel of 45 Sub-Saharan African countries from 1993 to 2015,...

• We consider how education impacts the relationship between technology and economic growth.

As international agreements come under fire from current politics, it becomes ever more important to investigate the effect of such agreements. The telecommunication sector is of special interest due to its growing importance in the ...

• International law matters.
• WTO Agreement on Basic Telecommunications increased ...

Drawing on the increasing body of literature on policy stakeholders and the ever-growing acknowledgement that communication policy is crafted by more than just parliamentarians and formal communication regulators this paper examines ...

• The role of the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) in American telecommunications policy is significant but uninvestigated.