The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues of international roaming in South Asia and make recommendations on how transparency and consistency in tariffs may be achieved; two elements that are important if the objective of SAARC is to provide its citizens a single-market environment....

The developing countries have lately experienced a surge in mobile phone adoption. New investment into the telecom sector has enabled network roll-out, and increasingly innovative business models have driven down network operation costs and customer acquisition & retention costs, enabling...

The developing countries have lately experienced a surge in mobile phone adoption. New investment into the telecom sector has enabled network roll-out, and increasingly innovative business models have driven down network operation costs and customer acquisition & retention costs, enabling...

Since 1988 the Maldivian population was subject to monopolistic behavior in all three ICT subsectors. There was meant to be liberalization in 2003 and 2005 in the Internet and mobile subsectors respectively with the issuance of licenses to Focus Infocom (Internet) and Wataniya (mobile); however,...

Given the volumes of data that are now generated by mobile networks due to the almost ubiquitous use of mobile phones by the majority of the population, this data can be considered as big data. Spurred by the exponential growth of mobile connectivity, the attendant large volumes of mobile...

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar is in its first presidential term of democratic governance. After the first democratic elections in almost five decades in 2010, President Thein Sein was elected to lead Myanmar in March 2011. Under the current Government, the ICT sector has been identified...

There are numerous Information and Communication Technology (ICT) indicators measured by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The present paper seeks to improve the measurement of the ICT indicator, ‘proportion of individuals using the Internet’. It is also a base indicator that...

Despite rugged topography, low population density, settlement patterns that include extremely small and isolated villages and landlocked nature, Bhutan made significant strides in a short time to provide voice connectivity to its people. The market opening in 2007 yielded good results: mobile...