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and radio spectrum. The objective of this paper is to highlight the need to consider a multitude of scenarios for the … enabled by improved spectral efficiency, adding more spectrum bands, aggregation of frequency bands and offloading to local … assuming deployment in regions in the world where both the availability of spectrum as well as the penetration of fixed phones …
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; spectrum allocation ; cost structure analysis ; spectrum ; business case network deployment strategies ; telecommunications … mobile data traffic. Future demand for more capacity can be met by allocation of more bandwidth and new spectrum bands to … mobile communication. But spectrum is a scarce resource and allocation of new licensed bands will only partly satisfy the …
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We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …
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tests the causal and reciprocal relationships between investment in telecommunications and GDP during the transitional … telecommunications sector. The research reveals strong and positive relationship between economic reform and firms’ revenue and profit …. The regression analysis shows that the telecommunications sector is statistically insignificant in explaining the GDP …
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innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are … evaluated with a focus on regulation of spectrum assignment, infrastructure sharing, call termination rates, and number …
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The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...
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The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication technologies is becoming more important for economic development. This paper presents the concept of the connectivity frontier as the expected achievable level of commercially...
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case of telecommunications, several initiatives of the European Commission and of national regulatory authorities to falls …
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the multilateral regime for telecommunications services. It begins by analysing the origins of the EU regime, describing …, examining the Uruguay Round and post-Uruguay Round negotiations on telecommunications services and outlining the issues under …
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This paper examines the substantial regulatory changes in North American telecommunications markets over the past … telecommunications trade deal. Specifically, there was broad political support for a deal, but the particular problems facing U ….S. carriers in competitive international markets meant any deal had to cover all major telecommunications markets and had to …
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