Better regulation is intended to serve as a framework to increase economic competitiveness, ensuring that legislation and rules imposed by all levels of government are proportionate and will help deliver more jobs and economic growth. Legislation and regulations at all levels which might have a...

Leased lines are basic building blocks of mobile networks, ISPs and virtual private networks. In South Africa they have been provided almost exclusively by Telkom SA, the incumbent operator, at comparatively high prices. Those prices were controlled as part of a general price cap by regulations,...

The Communications Commission of the Isle of Man has invited comments on three options for the future: the status quo, adoption of a European Union or a bespoke approach to regulation. The details provided are very limited, especially of the third option, with many issues omitted or glossed...

Users are increasingly concerned by the apparently arbitrary and often exorbitant charges for roaming services on their mobile telephones. Charges seem to have no relationship to costs or to best practice. Service providers make little effort to inform customers of the charges they will incur....

The economic recession has been an opportunity for the telecommunications industry to call for investment in optical fibre access networks as a stimulus towards economic recovery. This argument is tested against the background of developments in Singapore, France, the United Kingdom and the...

SIDS are a diverse group of nations, which have struggled to ensure a place in the information society, because of the high cost of international links and the difficulties of achieving competition which continental countries take for granted. Market entry is problematic for lack of economies of...

Despite all the perceived risks, Africa has proved to be a very successful location for mobile network operators that are investing substantial sums, building networks and making profits. However, much of that profit is being taken from Africa and much of the investment is equipment from...

The purpose of this paper is to review the effectiveness of the various initiatives taken to regulate international mobile roaming over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is an analysis of the policies and the measures and their effects on prices and industry dynamics....

The phenomenal growth of the customer base for mobile phones has been heavily promoted by the industry. However, analysis of the numbers indicates that there are massive levels of systemic overcounting, caused by customers with multiple subscriptions, perhaps for a range of operators, perhaps...

The growth of Internet access enabled the creation of functions (e.g., e-commerce and search) that were initially convenient but which a small number of firms used to achieve winner-takes-all, through the application of ICTs, network externalities and two-sided markets. They turned themselves...