While the role of telecommunication networks historically, and today broadband and the Internet, have been theoretically linked to economic growth, the empirical results have been mixed, giving rise again to the "productivity paradox." Many governments, particularly those in Southeast Asia, have...

Broadband connectivity continues to be an important component of a digital economy. More so today with advanced Asia-Pacific economies gradually adopting emerging technologies (such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, Internet of things (IoT), and cloud computing) for increasing...

Telecom infrastructure development has been enabled greatly by different forms of collaborations or synergies between the public and the private sector. These synergies in most cases are exigent measures employed to enable the diffusion of telecom infrastructure into under served and un-served...