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Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa
Jentzsch, Nicola - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of … may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future … upon a panel dataset of 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2000 to 2010. The results show that the …
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Infrastructure regulation: what works, why, and how do we know?
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Public infrastructure services have been subject to dramatic regulatory reform since the 1980s in the European Union, particularly privatization, at the national level, and increased liberalization and deregulation, via the Single Market Programme. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283788
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Is Market-Oriented Reform Producing a “Two-Track” Europe? Evidence from Electricity and Telecommunications
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The European Commission has formally recognised that adequate provision of basic household services, including energy, communications, water and transport, is key to ensuring equity, social cohesion and solidarity. Yet little research has been done on the impact of the reform of these services...
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Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock
Grubb, Michael D.; Osborne, Matthew - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 1, pp. 234-71
Following FCC pressure to end bill shock, cellular carriers now alert customers when they exceed usage allowances. We estimate a model of plan choice, usage, and learning using a 2002-2004 panel of cellular bills. Accounting for firm price adjustment, we predict that implementing alerts in...
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How consumers’ socio-economic background influences satisfaction: Insights for better utility regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Augmenting consumer welfare was a key justification behind the reform of utilities from the 1980s. But, three decades later, evidence is mounting that consumer satisfaction with household utilities is quite uneven. Moreover, governments, regulators and international organizations are...
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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013
Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...
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Universal Access and Local Commercial Internet Markets
Downes, Tom; Greenstein, Shane - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2000
Concern over the potential need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other combinations of communication and computing motivates this study of the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access in...
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Towards A knowledge-Based Economy - Europe and Central Asia - Internet Development and Governance
Kapitsa, Larissa - Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE), United Nations - 2008
The diversity and socio-economic differentiation of the real world prevents the full-scale cultivation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the benefit of all. Furthermore, the lack of determination and political will in some countries and slowness of responses to new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087084
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s – particularly, privatization, liberalization and deregulation – was the establishment of a new business environment which permitted former national telecommunications monopolies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Transparency about net neutrality: A translation of the new European rules into a multi-stakeholder model
Nooren, Pieter; Prins, Mark - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011
The new European framework directive contains a number of policy objectives in the area of net neutrality. In support of these objectives, the universal service directive includes a transparency obligation for ISPs. This paper proposes a multi-stakeholder model for the implementation of this...
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