The Telecommunications Act of 1996 has yielded more litigation and less local competition than its supporters expected … framework for reform. The successful deregulations of the transportation industries and of long-distance telecommunications … telecommunications competition. Transportation deregulation successfully prompted competition where (as in the case of airlines and …

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …

for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …Telecommunications policy issues rarely make news, much less mobilize thousands of people. Yet this has been occurring …, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 … users with more digital competence in using the internet will experience less harm associated with online risk. The data did … been bothered or upset by something on the internet. Finally, the study found that, although this had not been predicted …

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent’s population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a …), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density …