TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the antecedents of MDSA habit and found that user satisfaction, perceived monetary value, and variety of use serve as the factors accelerating the development of the MDSA habitual use.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bootstrap approach for the decomposition of labour productivity change, proposed by Kumar and Russell (2002), is employed to conduct statistical inference on the parameters of interest, and to analyse the effects of ICT technologies on capital accumulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the likelihood of access to ICT-based market information declines with female-headed households and that the adoption of improved seed has a positive and significant effect on farm yields and gross farm returns.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of a vast array of public policies on wireline broadband penetration through a novel and unique dataset covering 30 OECD countries, over the period 1995-2010, and find that both supply-and demand-side policies have a positive effect on broadband penetration, their relative impact depends on the actual stage of broadband diffusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether mobile broadband is a complementary or substitute service to fixed broadband by examining survey data collected by the Post-och telestyrelsen (PTS) in 2009.

TL;DR: The 2011 National Broadband Map (NBM) has generated significant interest from the telecommunications policy community as discussed by the authors, and the NBM represents a marked departure from previous broadband data efforts.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the telecommunications policy-making process in China and India is presented, where the authors adopt an institutionalist perspective and multi-streams framework to analyze the formal structures, rule-making procedures and interest groups involved in telecommunications policymaking in the two countries.

TL;DR: This study examines the question of whether the geographical digital divide in China has reduced with the introduction of mobile, including 3G, telecommunications to find out if it has reduced.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the migration from the legacy copper network to the NGA infrastructure, and how wholesale pricing regulation might affect this process; the introduction of differentiated wholesale remedies according to geographical differences in NGAN deployment; the impact of co-investment decisions on market outcomes and their interplay with access regulation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intrinsic mechanism of market behaviors and hence competition development and regulatory imperatives in the Chinese telecommunications industry are analyzed based on extensive archival research and interview, and an input-output model was substantiated for pattern-matching in Chinese context base on the postulation of a series of propositions and hence Industry-Gray-Box.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the broadband digital divide by analyzing the impact of policy and regulation on broadband Internet diffusion and find that in technologically developed countries, there is greater broadband diffusion in countries that make a higher financial investment in information and communication technologies (ICTs), have effective governing practices at the national level, have higher levels of education, and are more urban.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed consumer behaviors in mobile voice over Internet protocol (mVoIP), focusing on the antecedents of consumers' intentions using a context-specific extension of the technology acceptance model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of different contract types and access regulation on innovation and competition in telecommunications in the context of Next Generation Access Networks is analyzed, and it is shown that ex-post access contracts lead less often to the duplication of investment, but to a wider roll-out compared to a market in which such contracts cannot be offered.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the reciprocal influence between technological change and Internet governance and find that the power to shape traffic flows redistributes control among actors in the Internet ecosystem, generating broad political economy debates about efficiency, fairness, innovation and transparency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of mobile number portability on competition in the European mobile communications industry and found that subscriber churn rates are negatively affected by both the level of charges levied on subscribers wishing to maintain their current number when switching mobile providers and the length of time required to switch.

TL;DR: The authors used the Egyptian uprising of January 2011 as a case study to examine the state's Internet politics before 2011, the use of the Internet by Egyptian resistance activists, and the power relations that existed after the overthrow of the Dictator.

TL;DR: There is a role for the regulator pro-actively to investigate different allocations, to make provisions for the most promising to occur and to incorporate in refarming exercises and in primary assignments based on auctions configurations of usage rights which might favour promising avenues of spectrum use.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how China's approach for standardization has evolved in the cases of locally developed 3G and 4G mobile standards: TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the recent literature analyzing the waterbed phenomenon in mobile telephony and draw some more general lessons for policy interventions in two-sided markets, such as the fact that some interventions that lower the prices on one side can result in higher prices on the other side.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the empirical evidence on commercial media bias (i.e., advertisers influence over media accuracy) and introduced a simple model to summarize the main elements of the theoretical literature and provided three main policy insights for media regulators: (i) Media regulators should target their monitoring efforts towards news contents upon which advertisers are likely to share similar preferences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the history of the Tunisian Internet and its Internet censorship regime, before analysing Internet architecture, Internet institutions, functional differentiation between elements of the regime and the role of international technology markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to measure the service quality of the rural ICT centers using the SERVQUAL model, and five hypotheses including tangibility, accountability, guarantee, empathy and reliability of service were examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the choice among different Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) architectures and highlight welfare tradeoffs with respect to cost differences and QoS differences between the various FTTH architectures and between the modes of regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of spectrum allocation on the network cost is analyzed and the access network costs are considered based on different spectrum allocations and technologies and compared to the acquisition costs of spectrum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine social media websites as frontiers and heterotopias in which rule is indeterminate, and explore the way rule is established and changed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fixed effects model for the estimation of the impact of mandatory registration on mobile subscription penetration growth is presented, which is based upon a panel dataset of 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2000 to 2010.

TL;DR: In this article, a study complements the literature on tariff biases by highlighting that a lack of tariff flexibility is a major impediment to choosing a flat rate: empirical support for this flexibility effect is found, while, at the same time, the insurance and overestimation effect that run in favor of flat rates are confirmed.

TL;DR: In this article, revealed-and stated-preference analysis was used for modeling network effects in the field of mobile telecommunications. And the authors showed that the observed and unobservable preference heterogeneity can be accounted for through the utilization of the random parameters multinomial logit model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a conceptual framework to articulate clear rights of access to radio spectrum in a way that would foster an efficient market-based allocation of the resource. But this approach includes no protection of, or constraints on, receivers.