Telecommunications Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Telecommunications Policy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility238
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy198
Editorial Board184
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy180
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry134
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices125
Too good to be true? China's new conceptual scheme for data property rights124
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services103
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges81
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy72
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Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective70
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos70
The ICT growth puzzle: Disentangling the role of individuals, firms, and governments across digitalization stages68
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Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network65
Wired and working? An evaluation of broadband expansion in Rural America64
How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis62
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea60
A two-sided model of paid peering59
Improving broadband subsidy allocation: Algorithmic and policy insights from Israel58
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy57
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans56
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road51
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany50
Digital dividends? Rural E-commerce policy and urban-rural income disparity in China49
A holistic framework for analyzing spectrum licensing models— illustrated by local licensing for 5G and 6G networks49
Impacts of the USDA broadband initiatives program on employment and telework: Evidence from confidential American community survey microdata47
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis44
A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace42
Triple Helix Synergy Model in China's new technology diplomacy: Perspectives from AI startups39
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Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic36
The centrifugal effects of digital technologies on knowledge generation: Internet penetration and small firms’ innovation36
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies36
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins36
Governing data through privacy after China's PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies36
ICT payoffs for workers: Evidence from the labor market in Brazil35
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?33
How artificial intelligence penetration affects workers’ job quality? Empirical evidence from China32
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain32
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan32
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe31
Revisiting the digital divide in Europe — The profile of those on the wrong side of the divide31
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis31
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet30
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications29
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach28
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?26
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States26
Broadband deployment and access to online banking: Does improved technology facilitate adoption?26
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis26
Editorial Board25
The evolution of the digital economy: Comparative insights from China and the United States, 1995–202025
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 202025
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties25
Editorial Board24
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?24
The behavioral impact of 5G adoption: Evidence from individual-level transaction data24
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill24
Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market24
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China23
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network23
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic23
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces23
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband22
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?22
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China22
Place matters for the poor: Digitisation and spatial inequality in Chile21
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK21
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions21
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats21
Editorial Board21
Governing deepfake realities: The truth immunity framework for telecommunications policy20
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment20
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica20
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform20
When defines where: how rural digital divide, customers’ mobility and usage patterns have shaped mobile infrastructures19
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China18
Unlocking trade locks in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) in Africa: The role of digital infrastructure18
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case18
A scaling law for two-sided networks? Empirical evidence for a mobile payment scheme18
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens18
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development18
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications17
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania17
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework17
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand16
Engineering the digital technology sphere: China's new technology diplomacy and telecom ecosystem niche construction16
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges16
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity16
Anticipatory governance of digital platforms: An analysis based on the UK's online safety act16
Environmental and social performance, digital readiness, and export growth in emerging ASEAN economies16
An old familiar song? Assessing the artificial intelligence divide among the regions of the European Union and its connections with digital divides16
Activating the principle of ‘taking into account the special needs of the developing countries’ in the distribution of low Earth orbit frequency/orbit resources16
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations16
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus16
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa16
Universal service and structural reforms in Latin America: What have we learned and where are we going?15
What drives broadband traffic?15
How do standards committees affect the success of a standard? Comparative analysis of RCS and VoLTE and proposed hybrid standards development model of open and bandwagon approaches15
Editorial Board15
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability15
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services15
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system15
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea15
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider15
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Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation14
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries14
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model13
Impact assessment of broadband transport and internet access projects in Peru13
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems13
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Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide13
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 813
Digital discrimination under disparate impact: A legal and economic analysis13
OrbitShare: The policy imperative for satellite internet mega-constellation sharing12
Between regulation and innovation: Stakeholder interests in the governance of the financial MyData ecosystem in South Korea12
Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India12
From entrepreneur to social sharer: Entrepreneurship and digital social sharing12
Impact of mobile money on the economic empowerment of women in Benin12
Small firms, big streams: How the characteristics of SMEs impact live streaming commerce performance12
Internet price, speed, and disparity: The case of rural healthcare providers in the United States12
“In the end, Bell always wins …” A critical analysis of concentration in Toronto's fibre-internet service market11
Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages11
Telecommunications policy agenda in the digital age: An analysis of Telecommunications Policy publications in the 21st century11
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition11
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5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries11
App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses11
Rural connectivity inequalities in Finland and Sweden: Evidence, measures, and policy reflections11
Economic, political, and social factors impeding the regulation of digital platforms11
New challenges in Internet governance: Power shifts and contestation from “within”11
Digitalization, AI and the rise of techno-religion: Transhumanist promises and the challenge to Enlightenment11
Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade10
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Valuing the virtual: The impact of fiber to the home on property prices in France10
Spatial econometric analysis of the digital divide in Thailand at the sub-district level: Patterns and determinants10
Building resilience in telecommunications: Towards a research agenda - Editorial10
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study10
Tourism usage of digital collaborative economy platforms in Europe: Situation, behaviours, and implications for the digital policies10
The role of blockchain for trade in global value chains: A systematic literature review and guidance for future research10
Digital infrastructure and industrial integration: An assessment of the coupling coordination effect between digital and real economy in China10
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How does the urban digital economy affect labor mobility? An analysis from inflow and outflow perspectives10
Technological change, completeness of financing microstructures, and impact on well-being and income inequality10
Telecommunications and Space Debris: Adaptive Regulation Beyond Earth10
Promotion of high-capacity broadband in the face of increasing global stress9
Communication Technology advancement and political outcomes in the developing world: Evidence from 4G proliferation in Indonesia9
Assessing the effectiveness of OTT services, branded apps, and gamified loyalty giveaways on mobile customer churn in the telecom industry: A machine-learning approach9
The academic industry’s response to generative artificial intelligence: An institutional analysis of large language models9
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Shifting digital priorities for the SDGs: A global analysis on economic and geographic scales9
The effect of gender inequality in internet access on energy poverty: A preliminary investigation in developing countries9
Regulating increasingly digitalised networks and services9
Restraining ICANN: An analysis of OFAC sanctions and their impact on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers9
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Orbital congestion and satellite broadband competition: Oligopoly, innovation, and second-best regulation9
The role of mobile network operators in next-generation public safety services8
Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum8
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Empowering civic engagement in AI governance: A two-wave panel study on AI literacy and participatory governance of generative AI in China8
Benchmarking internet Progress: Longitudinal analysis of the FCC's measuring broadband America data, 2011–20238
Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan8
Big data, small answers: How the DSA Transparency Database falls short of its regulatory objectives8
The role of broadband speed availability in business survival and employment8
Blockchain for sustainability: A systematic literature review for policy impact8
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Expertise and Participation in the Facebook Oversight Board: From Reason to Will8
Convergence and determinants of ICT development in case of emerging market economies8
Digital economy and settlement intention of migrants in urban China8
The efficiency analysis of media companies: An application of DEA and Malmquist indices8
The impact of spectrum set-asides on private and public mobile networks8
An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance8
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Enabling the EU's digital Sovereignty: A Europe-level quantum internet as the key infrastructure for a European digital polity8
The age-based digital divides in China: Trends and socioeconomic differentials (2010–2020)8
Experimenting in the cloud: The digital divide's impact on innovation8
Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China8
Estimating private costs in a descending clock auction: The FCC’s rural digital opportunity fund7
Factors driving mobile network operator profitability in public safety mobile broadband projects7
Coopetition, standardization and general purpose technologies: A framework and an application7
Why do Korean users intend to subscribe to global OTT service through their local IPTV service?7
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy7
Enhancing AI literacy for inclusive digital economies and societies: Policies and challenges in addressing the AI divide7
New reality of public service media journalists: How generative AI redefines journalism and work practices7
Competitive effects of mergers and of spectrum divestment remedies in mobile telecommunication markets7
A combinatorial auction to sell TV broadcasting rights in league sports7
Need for speed: Fiber and student achievement7
A question of strategic legislation: Can the EU deal with cybersecurity issues in space?7
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective7
Why do users perceive digital platforms as indispensable to their lives?: A study on KakaoTalk in Korea7
Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece7
A systematic review of mobile payment literature: What has been studied and what should be studied?7
The impact of mobile virtual network operators on the mobile telecommunications services market: The case of the Czech Republic7
Understanding uptake in demand-side broadband subsidy programs: The affordable connectivity program case6
Exploring fans’ participation in digital media: Transcreation of webtoons6
Is pay-or-consent for privacy justifiable? Evidence from different users' privacy attitudes toward behavioral data collection in South Korea6
The effect of ICT on tax revenue mobilization: A global perspective6
Reciprocity or conflict? The impact of dual-policy of broadband China and low-carbon city on firms’ green technology innovation6
How regime types shape internet governance effectiveness in cybersecurity: A cross-country study6
Personal data protection in China: Progress, challenges and prospects in the age of big data and AI6
Urban wireless traffic evolution: The role of new devices and the effect of policy6
Untangling the paradox of Licensed Shared Access: Need for regulatory refocus6
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement6
Mobile phones and economic gender inequality: A panel study of 104 countries from 2014 to 20226
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Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada6
Is your netflix a substitute for your telefunken? Evidence on the dynamics of traditional pay TV and OTT in Latin America6
What $2.5 billion can buy: The effect of the Broadband Initiatives Program on farm productivity5
Self-reported AI literacy and gendered self-efficacy: Evidence from Chinese adolescents5
Network slicing and net neutrality5
The role of Video on Demand in stimulating broadband adoption5
Does affordable Internet promote maternal and child healthcare access? Evidence from a post-telecommunication market disruption period in India5
Learning from the neighbors: The diffusion of state broadband policies in the United States5
Special issue editorial “The impact of modern broadband networks on Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions”5
Toward an integrated framework for developing European 6G innovation5
Assessing the economy-wide impacts of digital transformation in the Korean economy: A social accounting matrix multiplier approach5
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?5
Using spectrum allocations to address indigenous rights claims: The case of New Zealand5
The effect of asymmetric regulation on mobile phone market competition: The case of mexico's 2013 telecommunications reform5
The integrated sphere of coopetition of digital services and the regulatory approach of diagonal equity5
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?5
Bridging the digital divide: Analyzing subsidy allocation efficiency in telecom sector reforms5
Digitalization and economic growth in the MENA region: Evidence from panel data analysis5
Comparing AI literacy policies in the European Union, the United States, India, and China5
Declared essential patents and average total R&D expenditures per patent family5
Consumer-driven design and evaluation of broadband labels5
Using choice experiments to value mobile device features: Evidence from screenshot capture5
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On the verge of a digital divide in the use of generative AI?5
Private participation in government-led backbone network projects: Lessons from three Latin American experiments5
Aligned with the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights? An artificial intelligence transparency evaluation of company privacy notices and explanations5
How does artificial intelligence enhance corporate participation in global value chains? Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies5
Security governance in UK telecoms: Reverse salience, path dependency and the paradox of stability vs innovation5
Equitable access to satellite broadband services: Challenges and opportunities for developing countries4
ICT sector electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions – 2020 outcome4
Privacy and personal data risk governance for generative artificial intelligence: A Chinese perspective4
The commercial space marketplace in flux4
Korea's leadership in 5G and beyond: Footprints and futures4
Lifting a regulatory millstone around 5G investors’ neck – 5G network slicing versus EU-net neutrality?4
Total factor productivity and the evolving role of ICT in Indian manufacturing plants4
The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadership by the dominant US digital platforms4
Evaluating digital skills policies: Assessing the potential impact of outreach programs in Italy4
How is artificial intelligence shaping the labor demand of firms? ——evidence from text-mining analysis of listed companies4
How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment4
Generative AI literacy: Scale development and its influence on privacy protection behaviors and information verification behaviors4
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