New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...

The first objective was to estimate the digital gender gap in the department of Puno in the year 2021. For this, the probit regression model with sample selection called Heckprobit was applied using data from the Residential Survey of Telecommunications Services for the year 2021 (Erestel, 2021)...

Improved internet connectivity has been a consistent aim of Japanese telecommunications policy in the past decades, however, despite the high availability of high speed and ultra-high speed broadband services, actual use has yet to match network capacity. This study hopes to explore this paradox...

This study highlights the extent to which rights of mobile phone and internet consumers are respected by the most important operators in Romania, namely Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, in the context of accelerated technological changes on a highly competitive market. The research is focused on...

Mobile phones and Internet use can enable human capabilities that can contribute to positive developmental outcomes (Smith, Spencer, & Rashid, 2011; Ndung'u & Waema, 2011; Agüero, de Silva & Kang, 2011; Sen, 1999). Communication networks, in Africa particularly mobile phones, have been recognised as an...

Das mobile Internet ist eine Technologie, die im privaten Einsatzbereich bereits eine hohe Verbreitung gefunden hat. Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Nutzern greift mit Smartphones und Tablet PCs mobil auf das Internet zu und verwendet mobile Anwendungen, so genannte Apps, zum Zugriff auf...

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet...