Across different metrics, the ICT performance of the Philippines remains subpar compared to ASEAN members and other countries at the same level of development. The quality of the country's ICT regulatory environment, composed of regulatory authority, regulatory mandate, regulatory regime, and...

There is increasing global call by various stakeholders on adherence to environmental sustainability. This need to adherence has prompted organisations to partner with suppliers to address the environmental sustainability agenda. The telecommunication sector is not excluded in this endeavour to...

Compatibility is recognized to be a socially desirable outcome but the welfare implications from a uniform standard are still ambiguous. This paper studies the effect of unifying two incompatible standards for wireless networks in the U.S. wireless telecommunications market from 2015 to 2018. I...

Unlike bus and rail operators, the nature of telecommunication service meant that small players in the market cannot start small. Specifically, a 4G telecommunication line for voice call and short message service must work everywhere in the defined geographical locale. This means that whatever...

Myanmar has experienced a series of total and partial internet shutdowns since the military coup in February 2021. These restrictions have varied in intensity across the country and over time, ranging from the complete shutdown of all wireless broadband services and nightly shutdowns of fixed...

When the telecom world readid itself to roll out 4G in the early 2010s, the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson realized that developing the next 5G mobile networks would require a speed and organizational flexibility that was beyond its current capacity. And so, it set out to change itself from a...