smartphones, married to broadband mobile networks, in China and India. China and India are the largest and second largest mobile … of broadband mobile networks. As mobile Internet use, combined with electronic transactions and payments, becomes the new … users to broadband networks and the use of Internet-based transactional services. The authors discuss and compare strategies …

This Internet is facing a critical moment in its history as Internet addresses begin to run out. The Asia Pacific is … the region most deeply affected by Internet address depletion, due to its lack of legacy address space and emerging … markets with new demand for Internet access. A Next Generation Internet with nearly infinite address space has been created …

During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This … paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young … people's internet access across gender, caste, religion, rural-urban sector, private-public schools, and income group. Our …