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An experiment for regulatory policy on broadband speed advertising
Timmons, Shane; McElvaney, Terence J.; Lunn, Pete - 2019
Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...
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Comparative approaches to key issues in the economic regulation of telecommunications markets in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Paelo, Anthea; Robb, Genna - 2020
innovation in telecommunications services. In this paper, regulatory models in South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are …
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Rebooting Philippine telecommunications through structural reform
Ortiz, Ma. Kristina P.; Serafica, Ramonette B.; Bairan, … - 2017
The quality of the Philippine telecommunication/information and communication technology (ICT) regulatory environment is significantly below what is considered international best practice. Using a scoring system developed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where 100 points...
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How is the internet changing labor market arrangements? : evidence from telecommunications reforms in Europe
Vazquez, Emmanuel; Winkler, Hernan - 2017
This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship … changes in their employment outcomes after telecommunications reforms were introduced. The main results point to a …-intensive sectors after the implementation of telecommunications reforms. The analysis does not find a link between the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011691197
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The coevolutionary relationship of technology, market and government regulation in telecommunications
Lin, Xuchen; Lu, Ting-jie; Chen, Xia - 2017
The technical change in telecommunications industry is tremendous, and it is exactly the continuous technological … progress in telecommunications that brings sustained prosperity and development of the telecommunications industry. Inthis … telecommunications industrywhich elaborates on the interaction mechanism between technological innovation, government regulation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760786
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Examining actors into boosting the provision of universal service in the Vietnamese context
Thai Do Manh; Williams, Idongesit - 2017
Purpose - The paper looks at the formulation of the BMGF-VN project to examine which actors participated in the formulation of this project, how their interests were translated into this project, and what lessons may be drawn for the formulation and implementation of universal service policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760818
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The connectivity frontier
Prats, Joan; Páez, Juan Andrés - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882497
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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676
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Regulation and investment in network industries : evidence from european telecoms
Grajek, Michał; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2009
We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …
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Structural change and income distribution : the case of Australian telecommunications
Verikios, George; Zhang, Xiao-Guang - 2014
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