Telecommunications Policy

Article	Citations
Analysis of spectrum pricing for commercial mobile services: A cross country study	145
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	134
Editorial Board	130
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	128
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy	127
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy	116
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges	115
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry	111
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices	99
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility	95
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	92
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	83
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	75
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services	68
What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance	62
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy	58
Editorial Board	57
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos	56
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy	55
Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans	54
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea	53
Editorial Board	53
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network	52
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	52
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	51

How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis	51
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective	50
A two-sided model of paid peering	50
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road	48
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany	47
Competition reform and household welfare: A microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia	46
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic	45
Editorial Board	44
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	43
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach	43
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies	42
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	41
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	41
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	41
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet	40
Editorial Board	40
The digital divide between high school students in Colombia	39
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis	38
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach	38
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	37
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan	36
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe	36
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?	35
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison	34
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	33
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications	33
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	33
Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain	32
Broadband technology opportunities program public computer center grants and residential broadband adoption	32
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	32
Editorial Board	29
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China	28
Editorial Board	28
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces	28
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats	28
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband	28
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States	27
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	27
A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network	27
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?	27
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	25
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?	24
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill	24
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties	24
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	23
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions	23
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case	23
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK	23
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform	22

The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China	22
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment	22
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework	22
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	22
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica	22
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens	22
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	21
The commercialization of bias in cashless India	21
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications	21
Editorial Board	20
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	20
The rewards of municipal broadband: An econometric analysis of the labor market	19
Scoping new policy frameworks for local and community broadband networks	18
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges	18
Working from home, job tasks, and productivity	18
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand	18
Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity	17
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	16
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	16
Valuation of digital goods during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States	16
Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania	16
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	16
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations	16
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 approaches	15
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference	15
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	15
What drives broadband traffic?	15
Editorial Board	15
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	15
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea	14
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability	14
Inequalities of opportunity in the access and use of telecommunication services in Togo	14
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services	14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	14
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider	14
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	14
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	14
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation	13
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries	13
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	13
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	13
Editorial Board	13
Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 8	13
Determining spectrum caps and service efficiency: A case study of mobile operators in Thailand	13
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition	13
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	13
Editorial Board	13
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model	13
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	13
App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses	12
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets	12
Editorial Board	12
Economic, political, and social factors impeding the regulation of digital platforms	12
Digital discrimination under disparate impact: A legal and economic analysis	12
New challenges in Internet governance: Power shifts and contestation from “within”	12
Standard essential patents and global ICT value chains with a focus on the catching-up of China	12
Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages	12
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries	12
Editorial Board	12
Internet price, speed, and disparity: The case of rural healthcare providers in the United States	12
Valuing the virtual: The impact of fiber to the home on property prices in France	11
Tourism usage of digital collaborative economy platforms in Europe: Situation, behaviours, and implications for the digital policies	11
Efficiency frontier of OECD MNOs: Multinational vs Domestic	11
The effects of internet proliferation on search engine and over-the-top service markets	11
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study	11
Telecommunications and Space Debris: Adaptive Regulation Beyond Earth	11
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda	11
Technological change, completeness of financing microstructures, and impact on well-being and income inequality	11
Expertise and Participation in the Facebook Oversight Board: From Reason to Will	10
The effect of gender inequality in internet access on energy poverty: A preliminary investigation in developing countries	10
Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade	10
Promotion of high-capacity broadband in the face of increasing global stress	10
An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance	10
Spatial econometric analysis of the digital divide in Thailand at the sub-district level: Patterns and determinants	10
The role of blockchain for trade in global value chains: A systematic literature review and guidance for future research	10
Editorial Board	10
Blockchain for sustainability: A systematic literature review for policy impact	9
Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum	9
Convergence and determinants of ICT development in case of emerging market economies	9

Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China	9
Experimenting in the cloud: The digital divide's impact on innovation	9
Assessing the effectiveness of OTT services, branded apps, and gamified loyalty giveaways on mobile customer churn in the telecom industry: A machine-learning approach	9
The age-based digital divides in China: Trends and socioeconomic differentials (2010–2020)	9
Restraining ICANN: An analysis of OFAC sanctions and their impact on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers	9
Editorial Board	9
Digital infrastructure and employment in services: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	9
An assessment of the liberalization and the evolution of competition in the Moroccan mobile market	9
Determinants of FTTH tariffs evolution in EU: A panel data analysis	9
The academic industry’s response to generative artificial intelligence: An institutional analysis of large language models	9
Editorial Board	9
Digital economy and settlement intention of migrants in urban China	9
A preview of the broadband fabric: Opportunities and issues for researchers and policymakers	9
The moral hazard of Lax FCC land use oversight for advanced network infrastructure	9
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The impact of mobile virtual network operators on the mobile telecommunications services market: The case of the Czech Republic	8
Factors driving mobile network operator profitability in public safety mobile broadband projects	8
The role of mobile network operators in next-generation public safety services	8
A question of strategic legislation: Can the EU deal with cybersecurity issues in space?	8
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea	8
Why do users perceive digital platforms as indispensable to their lives?: A study on KakaoTalk in Korea	8
A systematic review of mobile payment literature: What has been studied and what should be studied?	8
Estimating private costs in a descending clock auction: The FCC’s rural digital opportunity fund	8
The efficiency analysis of media companies: An application of DEA and Malmquist indices	8
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy	8
Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece	7
Competitive effects of mergers and of spectrum divestment remedies in mobile telecommunication markets	7
Coopetition, standardization and general purpose technologies: A framework and an application	7
Is your netflix a substitute for your telefunken? Evidence on the dynamics of traditional pay TV and OTT in Latin America	7
Why do Korean users intend to subscribe to global OTT service through their local IPTV service?	7
Editorial Board	7
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain	7
Reclaiming spectrum from incumbents in inefficiently allocated bands: Transaction costs, competition, and flexibility	7
Need for speed: Fiber and student achievement	7
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement	7
Is pay-or-consent for privacy justifiable? Evidence from different users' privacy attitudes toward behavioral data collection in South Korea	7
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective	7
A combinatorial auction to sell TV broadcasting rights in league sports	7
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Exploring fans’ participation in digital media: Transcreation of webtoons	7
Understanding uptake in demand-side broadband subsidy programs: The affordable connectivity program case	7
Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada	6
Urban wireless traffic evolution: The role of new devices and the effect of policy	6
Digitalization and economic growth in the MENA region: Evidence from panel data analysis	6
Private participation in government-led backbone network projects: Lessons from three Latin American experiments	6
China 5G: Opportunities and Challenges	6
The role of epistemic communities in the “constitutionalization” of internet governance: The example of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence	6
Assessing the economy-wide impacts of digital transformation in the Korean economy: A social accounting matrix multiplier approach	6
Editorial Board	6
The integrated sphere of coopetition of digital services and the regulatory approach of diagonal equity	6
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei	6
Toward an integrated framework for developing European 6G innovation	6
Editorial Board	6
Municipal fiber in the United States: A financial assessment	6
Untangling the paradox of Licensed Shared Access: Need for regulatory refocus	6
Analysis of cybersecurity competencies: Recommendations for telecommunications policy	5
Analysing the C-Band spectrum auctions for 5G in Europe: Achieving efficiency and fair decisions in radio spectrum management	5
Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries	5
Declared essential patents and average total R&D expenditures per patent family	5
Sustainability of mobile IT sector in industrially developing countries by supporting repairability	5
Bridging the digital divide: Analyzing subsidy allocation efficiency in telecom sector reforms	5
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?	5
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China	4
Special issue editorial “The impact of modern broadband networks on Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions”	4
On the verge of a digital divide in the use of generative AI?	4
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?	4
Editorial Board	4
Learning from the neighbors: The diffusion of state broadband policies in the United States	4
Using spectrum allocations to address indigenous rights claims: The case of New Zealand	4
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa	4
Who uses paid over-the-top services and why? Cross-national comparisons of consumer demographics and values	4
Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families	4
Niche analysis of competition among music streaming services in Korea	4
Editorial Board	4
It's just distributed computing: Rethinking AI governance	4
Network slicing and net neutrality	4
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies	4
Consumer-driven design and evaluation of broadband labels	4
The role of Video on Demand in stimulating broadband adoption	4
What $2.5 billion can buy: The effect of the Broadband Initiatives Program on farm productivity	4
Editorial Board	4
Does affordable Internet promote maternal and child healthcare access? Evidence from a post-telecommunication market disruption period in India	4
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks	4
Who can work from home? A remote working index for an emerging economy	3
Do ‘dig once’ and permitting policies improve fiber availability?	3
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning: A comparative study of Korea and Finland	3
Impact of internet usage on the subjective well-being of urban and rural households: Evidence from Vietnam	3
Is better access to mobile networks associated with increased mobile money adoption? Evidence from the micro-data of six developing countries	3
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance	3
Driving information communication technology for tax revenue mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Could information and communication technology (ICT) reduce carbon emissions? The role of trade openness and financial development	3
A ‘biased’ emerging governance regime for artificial intelligence? How AI ethics get skewed moving from principles to practices	3
High-speed internet access and diffusion of new technologies in nonmetro areas	3
“The Netflix effect” in Thailand: Industry and regulatory implications	3
How does technological value drive 6G development? Explanation from a systematic framework	3