Recently, governments in many countries have acknowledged the higher complexity involved in finding the more efficient path towards a so-called broadband ecosystem. The governments of Australia and New Zealand are leading the deployment of national fibre-based broadband infrastructures through...

The essential input to the exploitation of mobile broadband known as radio spectrum is a scarce resource, whose allocation and eventual assignment by telecommunications regulator and spectrum authorities across the world is of outmost importance. The most popular approach to spectrum assignment...

The government of Australia is investing close to AUD $37.4 billion into the deployment of a nationwide broadband network, the National Broadband Network (NBN). Likewise, the New Zealand national broadband initiative, whereby the government is currently building a nation-wide fibre-optics...

Inspired by the Colombian mobile telecommunications market, this paper reviews the process by which a government's spectrum agency decides on the allocation of new spectrum bands to the mobile communications markets, including 4G and mobile broadband. It discusses the elements the spectrum...

New Zealand (NZ) is currently implementing a high-speed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband project known as the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative. In this article we explore drivers and barriers of consumer adoption of UFB. We use a mixed methods approach for conducting empirical research,...

Although it is widely accepted that the future telecommunications access infrastructure relies heavily on Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH), its deployment is compromised because it requires substantial investment. As such, if the decision to go ahead with the investment is made, the partners involved...