Telecommunications Policy

Article	Citations
The impact of ICT on economic growth-Comparing rich and poor countries	164
ICT for sustainable development: Global comparative evidence of globalisation thresholds	117
Revisiting Wireless Internet Connectivity: 5G vs Wi-Fi 6	104
Broadband infrastructure and export growth	91
Factors influencing TikTok engagement behaviors in China: An examination of gratifications sought, narcissism, and the Big Five personality traits	89
Internet access and poverty reduction: Evidence from rural and urban Mexico	88
From digital divide to digital inclusion: Challenges for wide-ranging digitalization in Pakistan	72
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	70
Reaping digital dividends: Digital inclusive finance and high-quality development of enterprises in China	68
Could information and communication technology (ICT) reduce carbon emissions? The role of trade openness and financial development	68
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	67
5G: A new future for Mobile Network Operators, or not?	63
Digital infrastructure and employment in services: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	63
Resistance to facial recognition payment in China: The influence of privacy-related factors	62
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning: A comparative study of Korea and Finland	52
An analysis of the impacts of telecommunications technology and innovation on economic growth	49
Effects of the internet, mobile, and land phones on income inequality and The Kuznets curve: Cross country analysis	49
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China	45
ICT and socio-economic development: Evidence from a spatial panel data analysis in China	45
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	45
Inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the interaction between ICT diffusion, and financial development	44
Information technology, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries	44
Can digitization mitigate the economic damage of a pandemic? Evidence from SARS	44
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	43
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa	42

Digital dividend or digital divide? Digital economy and urban-rural income inequality in China	39
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	38
Regulating smart contracts: Legal revolution or simply evolution?	38
Digital divide and financial development in Africa	37
Determinants of digitalization and digital divide in Sub-Saharan African economies: A spatial Durbin analysis	37
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	36
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain	35
Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19	35
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	35
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	34
ICT adoption, innovation, and SMEs’ access to finance	34
ICT investment and GDP growth: Causality analysis for the case of Korea	33
The non-linear impact of digitization on remittances inflow: Evidence from the BRICS	33
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets	32
Platform configurations for local and private 5G networks in complex industrial multi-stakeholder ecosystems	32
Importance of Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure for 5G: Estimating the impact of 5G use cases	32
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	31
How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	31
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	30
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance	30
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	30
Convergence patterns in global ICT: Fresh insights from a club clustering algorithm	29
ICT and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission channels and effects	28
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Connecting the other half: Exploring options for the 50% of the population unconnected to the internet	28
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies	28
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea	27
The impact of ICT patents on economic growth: An international evidence	27
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy	26
E-commerce in Spain: Determining factors and the importance of the e-trust	25
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	25
Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries	25
Prediction of Wheat Production Using Machine Learning Algorithms in northern areas of Pakistan	24
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?	24
The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on internet interconnection	24
Who uses paid over-the-top services and why? Cross-national comparisons of consumer demographics and values	23
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective	23
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Why is South Korea at the forefront of 5G? Insights from technology systems theory	23
Does the digital economy generate a gender dividend for female employment? Evidence from China	22
Demonetization and digitalization: The Indian government's hidden agenda	22
A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity	21
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	21
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	21
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda	21
The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force	20
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	20
Can digital policy improve corporate sustainability? Empirical evidence from China's national comprehensive big data pilot zones	20
Friends or Foes? Mobile money interaction with formal and informal finance	20
How do industrial robots applications affect the quality upgrade of Chinese export trade?	19

A ‘biased’ emerging governance regime for artificial intelligence? How AI ethics get skewed moving from principles to practices	19
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries	19
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	19
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?	18
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	18
The effect of the digital economy on total factor productivity in European regions	18
Harmonizing regulatory regimes for the governance of patient-generated health data	18
Measuring ICT externalities and their contribution to productivity: A bilateral trade based approach	18
“The Netflix effect” in Thailand: Industry and regulatory implications	18
Ubiquitous technologies and 5G development. Who is leading the race?	18
Toward the adoption of digital assistive technology: Factors affecting older people's initial trust formation	18
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei	18
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform	18
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	18
Digital divides across consumers of internet services in Spain using panel data 2007–2019. Narrowing or not?	17
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks	17
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans	17
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Impact of high-speed broadband access on local establishment dynamics	17
Digital platforms in Africa: A case-study of Jumia Egypt's digital platform	16
Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK	16
Mobile phones, mobile Internet, and employment in Uganda	16
Information and communications technology infrastructure and firm growth: An empirical study of China's cities	15
Normfare: Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance	15
The evolution paths of neutral host businesses: Antecedents, strategies, and business models	15
An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance	15
Population grid-based assessment of the impact of broadband expansion on population development in rural areas	15
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study	15
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	15
The ‘China’ question in mobile Internet standard-making: Insights from expert interviews	14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	14
Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families	14
Small rural operators techno-economic analysis to bring mobile services to isolated communities: The case of Peru Amazon rainforest	14
Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community	13
Reforming funding of universal access to telecommunications and broadband services: Approaches for the new decade	13
Standard essential patents and global ICT value chains with a focus on the catching-up of China	13
ICT for healthy and active aging: The elderly as first and last movers	13
The mobile phone technology, gender inclusive education and public accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
ICT interaction with trade, FDI and financial inclusion on inclusive growth in top African nations ranked by ICT development	12
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	12
The role of epistemic communities in the “constitutionalization” of internet governance: The example of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence	12
Industry consortia in mobile telecommunications standards setting: Purpose, organization and diversity	12
Blockchain for sustainability: A systematic literature review for policy impact	12
The effect of mobile phone penetration on the quality of life	12
Personalized pricing for customer retention: Theory and evidence from mobile communication	12
Movie characteristics as determinants of download-to-own performance in the Korean video-on-demand market	11
Technological sovereignty of the EU in advanced 5G mobile communications: An empirical approach	11
ICTs quality and quantity and the margins of trade	11
Internet governance in the “post-truth era”: Analyzing key topics in “fake news” discussions at IGF	11
Impact of internet usage on the subjective well-being of urban and rural households: Evidence from Vietnam	11
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison	11
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	11
How information and communication technology drives (routine and non-routine) jobs: Structural path and decomposition analysis for China	10
Is Netflix a threat to the cable TV industry? Evidence from Brazil	10
A business case for 5G services in an industrial sea port area	10
Use of blockchain in the agri-food value chain: State of the art in Spain and some lessons from the perspective of public support.	10
The use of ICTs and income distribution in Brazil: A machine learning explanation using SHAP values	10
How transparent are transparency reports? Comparative analysis of transparency reporting across online platforms	9
Digital economy and settlement intention of migrants in urban China	9
What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance	9
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	9
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	9
Evaluating the effects of ICT core elements on CO2 emissions: Recent evidence from OECD countries	9
A longitudinal analysis of broadband provision in tribal areas	9
Can upgrading information infrastructure improve the innovation ability of companies? Empirical evidence from China	9
Regional differences in residential demand for very high bandwidth broadband internet in 2025	9
The tribal digital divide: Extent and Explanations	9
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	9
The economic impact of mobile broadband speed	9
Impact of broadband penetration on U.S. Farm productivity: A panel approach	9
The effect of government 5G policies on telecommunication operators’ firm value: Evidence from China	9
What do telecommunications policy academics have to fear from GPT-3?	8
Toward an integrated framework for developing European 6G innovation	8
Coopetition, standardization and general purpose technologies: A framework and an application	8
Evolution of the internet gender gaps in Spain and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	8
Technological change, completeness of financing microstructures, and impact on well-being and income inequality	8
ICTs quality and technical efficiency: An empirical analysis	8
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement	8
Cashlessness in India: Vision, policy and practices	8
Analysis of cybersecurity competencies: Recommendations for telecommunications policy	8

Broadband technology opportunities program public computer center grants and residential broadband adoption	8
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	8
Toward new guardrails for the information society	7
China 5G: Opportunities and Challenges	7
Exploring the feasibility of rural broadband cooperatives in the United States: The new New Deal?	7
The heterogeneous role of broadband access on establishment entry and exit by sector and urban and rural markets	7
Social media and happiness nexus in the millennial generation	7
Analysis of the socio-economic determinants of mobile money adoption and use in Cameroon	7
Analysing the C-Band spectrum auctions for 5G in Europe: Achieving efficiency and fair decisions in radio spectrum management	7
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	7
What rules the Internet? A study of the troubled relation between Web standards and legal instruments in the field of privacy	7
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	7
Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity	7
Fiber-broadband-internet and its regional impact—An empirical investigation	7
Telecommunications and Space Debris: Adaptive Regulation Beyond Earth	7
Measuring the digital economy in Vietnam	7
Is your netflix a substitute for your telefunken? Evidence on the dynamics of traditional pay TV and OTT in Latin America	7
Is better access to mobile networks associated with increased mobile money adoption? Evidence from the micro-data of six developing countries	7
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	7
An assessment of estimation models and investment gaps for the deployment of high-speed broadband networks in NUTS3 regions to meet the objectives of the European Gigabit Society	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	6
Patent pools in 5G: The principles for facilitating pool licensing	6
Not too much nor too little: Salience bias in mobile plan choices	6
Driving information communication technology for tax revenue mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
A preview of the broadband fabric: Opportunities and issues for researchers and policymakers	6
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	6
Impact of information and communication technologies on agricultural households’ welfare in Benin	6
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	6
Information and communication technologies and employment in developing countries: Effects and transmission channels	6
The impact of regional ICT development on job quality of the employee in China	6
The effects of internet proliferation on search engine and over-the-top service markets	6
Estimating the deployment costs of broadband universal service via fiber networks in Korea	6
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	6
Convergence and determinants of ICT development in case of emerging market economies	6
What $2.5 billion can buy: The effect of the Broadband Initiatives Program on farm productivity	5
Public-private partnership for building a resilient broadband infrastructure in Puerto Rico	5
The impact of spectrum assignment policies on consumer welfare	5
New school speech regulation as a regulatory strategy against hate speech on social media: The case of Germany's NetzDG	5
ICT sector electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions – 2020 outcome	5
Your privacy for a discount? Exploring the willingness to share personal data for personalized offers	5
Subsidies and substitution: An empirical study of the lifeline program	5
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	5
Explaining cost escalation on Ireland's national broadband plan: A path dependency perspective	5
Regulating the use of facial recognition technology across borders: A comparative case analysis of the European Union, the United States, and China	5
Improving broadband policy design using market data: A general framework and an application to Brazil	5
Information technology and sustainability in developing countries: An introduction	5
Effects of mobile networks and Covid-19 on mobile shopping sales in South Korea	5
Leaking my face via payment: Unveiling the influence of technology anxiety, vulnerabilities, and privacy concerns on user resistance to facial recognition payment	5
Experimenting in the cloud: The digital divide's impact on innovation	5
Systematic analysis of the blockchain in the energy sector: Trends, issues, and future directions	4
The digital divide between high school students in Colombia	4
The benefits and potential costs of a digital economy	4
Why do Korean users intend to subscribe to global OTT service through their local IPTV service?	4
Do ‘dig once’ and permitting policies improve fiber availability?	4
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	4
The commercialization of bias in cashless India	4
The future service scenarios of 6G telecommunications technology	4
Mobile money, child labour and school enrolment	4
Factors affecting the sustainability of telecentres in developing countries	4
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	4
The impact of digitalisation on remittances. Evidence from El Salvador	4
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	4
The influence of digital divide frames on legislative passage and partisan sponsorship: A content analysis of digital equity legislation in the U.S. from 1990 to 2020	4
Research trends of digital platforms: A survey of the literature from 2018 to 2021	4
Impact of mobile operator consolidation on unit prices	4
The role of mobile network operators in next-generation public safety services	4
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	4
Estimating the impact of co-investment on Fiber to the Home adoption and competition	3
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	3
Agency and representation in internet governance	3
Does the mobile phone affect social development? Evidence from Indonesian villages	3
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	3
Competitive effects of cable networks on FTTx deployment in Europe	3
App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses	3
Technological and geographic heterogeneity in broadband markets: The challenge for regulation	3
Unleashing the potential of online learning in Spain: An econometric analysis	3
Regulatory challenges and implications of the European electronic communications code (EECC) for local mobile communication network business	3
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference	3
Mobile money, family assistance and welfare in Cameroon	3
The rewards of municipal broadband: An econometric analysis of the labor market	3
Valuation of digital goods during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States	3
COVID-19 contact-tracing smartphone application usage—The New Zealand COVID Tracer experience	3
Risk, reputation and responsibility: Cybersecurity and centralized data in United States civilian federal agencies	3
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	3
Rolling out of fibre optic networks in intermediate versus urban areas: An exploratory spatial analysis in the Netherlands	3
A two-sided model of paid peering	3
Cashlessness and scalable multi-pay practices: Capturing the everyday financial transactions in local contexts	3
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	3
Analyzing the competitiveness and strategies of Chinese mobile network operators in the 5G era	3
Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China	3
The academic industry’s response to generative artificial intelligence: An institutional analysis of large language models	3
The geopolitics of digital rights activism: Evaluating civil society's role in the promises of multistakeholder internet governance	3
Confusing relevance and price: Interpreting and improving surveys on internet non-adoption	3
Is the internet penetration pro-poor? Evidence from a panel data analysis	3
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach	3