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Broadband infrastructure: The regulatory framework, market transparency and risk-sharing partnerships are the key factors
Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
cost structure for broadband projects results in the private-sector-driven, competitive market for network upgrading being … primarily focused on densely populated urban areas. By contrast, major progress in rolling out broadband to unserved rural areas …-sharing partnerships, setting realistic broadband targets, providing essential market information to market participants, offering e …
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Entrepreneurship and social networks in IT sectors: the case of the software industry in Portugal
Salavisa, Isabel; Videira, Pedro; Santos, Filipa - In: Journal of Innovation Economics n° 4 (2009) 2, pp. 15-39
technological knowledge, skills, and others) do entrepreneurs mobilize through their networks. Based on a survey of 13 companies …
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Estudio de la regulación de cargos de acceso en telefonía móvil y una propuesta para Colombia
Castro, Felipe - FEDESARROLLO - 2013
Un cargo de acceso es el pago que realiza un operador a otro en compensación por el uso de su red para conectar el tráfico terminado en ella (ITU, 2009). Bajo un esquema de cobro como el utilizado en Colombia, donde paga quien realiza la llamada (Calling Party Pays), la diferencia entre el...
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The Death of Distance Revisited: Cyberplace, Physical and Relational Proximities
Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in an article in the <I>Journal of Regional Science</I> (2013). Volume 53, Issue 5(SI), pages 855-873.<P> This paper studies the impact of physical distance and different relational proximity types on the formation of the Internet infrastructure. Although there is some...</p></i>
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El marco institucional para la regulación, supervisión y el control de los servicios públicos en Colombia: Propuesta para su fortalecimiento
Caballero, Carlos; Jadresis, Alejandro; Gómez, Manuel … - FEDESARROLLO - 2006
“La Constitución de 1991 y las leyes 142 y 143 de 1994 dieron lugar a la implantación de un modelo nuevo para el suministro de los servicios públicos domiciliarios en Colombia. La crisis económica de 1998-1999, la agudización del terrorismo en el año 2000 con la consecuente voladura de...
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Telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from developing countries.
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam; Sridhar, Varadharajan - 2004
Often, it has been observed that telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth proceed together. While this relationship has been studied in the context of developed (OECD) countries, in this study, we investigate this simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and...
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Regional and urban policy beyond 2000 : new approaches with learning as device
Geenhuizen, Marina van; Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
Much of the debate over the spatial setting of innovation has now resulted in the recognition of the region as a principle framework for knowledge creation and use. Little attention has been given to knowledge activities in the region from an integrated point of view, and to policy approaches...
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Regional and urban policy beyond 2000 : new approaches with learning as device
Geenhuizen, Marina van; Nijkamp, Peter - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
Much of the debate over the spatial setting of innovation has now resulted in the recognition of the region as a principle framework for knowledge creation and use. Little attention has been given to knowledge activities in the region from an integrated point of view, and to policy approaches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782698
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Focus on regulation and industrial policies. Australian broadband policy and development
Albon, Rob - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2013/3 (2013) 3, pp. 93-115
’s history". The project involves building an ultra-fast national broadband network (the "NBN") relying mainly on fibre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700885
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
Aker, Jenny C.; Mbiti, Isaac M. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (2010) 3, pp. 207-32
Access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Mobile telephony has brought new possibilities to the continent. Across urban-rural and rich-poor divides, mobile phones connect individuals to individuals, information, markets, and...
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