Telecommunications Policy

Article	Citations
AI governance in the public sector: Three tales from the frontiers of automated decision-making in democratic settings	155
The impact of ICT on economic growth-Comparing rich and poor countries	140
ICT for sustainable development: Global comparative evidence of globalisation thresholds	90
Revisiting Wireless Internet Connectivity: 5G vs Wi-Fi 6	89
Assessment of mobile technology use in the emerging market: Analyzing intention to use m-payment services in India	79
Factors influencing TikTok engagement behaviors in China: An examination of gratifications sought, narcissism, and the Big Five personality traits	73
Harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to increase wellbeing for all: The case for a new technology diplomacy	71
Broadband infrastructure and export growth	70
Internet access and poverty reduction: Evidence from rural and urban Mexico	68
Inequality and gender inclusion: Minimum ICT policy thresholds for promoting female employment in Sub-Saharan Africa	68
Societal and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence: Critical notes on European policy frameworks	61
5G: A new future for Mobile Network Operators, or not?	54
Understanding the greater diffusion of mobile money innovations in Africa	51
From digital divide to digital inclusion: Challenges for wide-ranging digitalization in Pakistan	50
Financial inclusion, mobile money, and individual welfare: The case of Burkina Faso	47
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	47
Reaping digital dividends: Digital inclusive finance and high-quality development of enterprises in China	46
Digital infrastructure and employment in services: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries	44
The non-linear relationship between ICT diffusion and financial development	44
Effects of the internet, mobile, and land phones on income inequality and The Kuznets curve: Cross country analysis	43
Forming a 5G strategy for developing countries: A note for policy makers	43
Resistance to facial recognition payment in China: The influence of privacy-related factors	43
An analysis of the impacts of telecommunications technology and innovation on economic growth	39
The gap not only closes: Resistance and reverse shifts in the digital divide in Russia	39
The impact of literacy on intention to use digital technology for learning: A comparative study of Korea and Finland	39

Innovation ecosystems theory revisited: The case of artificial intelligence in China	39
Can digitization mitigate the economic damage of a pandemic? Evidence from SARS	38
Impact of very high-speed broadband on company creation and entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence	37
ICT and socio-economic development: Evidence from a spatial panel data analysis in China	37
Is ICT an enduring driver of economic growth? Evidence from South Asian economies	36
Artificial intelligence: From ethics to law	36
Inclusive growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the interaction between ICT diffusion, and financial development	36
Information technology, income inequality and economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries	35
ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education: Minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries	33
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China	33
Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	33
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa	31
ICT investment and GDP growth: Causality analysis for the case of Korea	31
Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms	31
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development	29
Importance of Internet Exchange Point (IXP) infrastructure for 5G: Estimating the impact of 5G use cases	29
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries	28
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Telecommunications and other network industries	27
Digital divide and financial development in Africa	27
Regulating smart contracts: Legal revolution or simply evolution?	26
Platform configurations for local and private 5G networks in complex industrial multi-stakeholder ecosystems	26
Determinants of digitalization and digital divide in Sub-Saharan African economies: A spatial Durbin analysis	26
Convergence patterns in global ICT: Fresh insights from a club clustering algorithm	26
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis	26
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs	26
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance	25
The non-linear impact of digitization on remittances inflow: Evidence from the BRICS	25
ICT adoption, innovation, and SMEs’ access to finance	25
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies	25
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain	25
Broadband adoption and availability: Impacts on rural employment during COVID-19	25
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets	25
State broadband policy: Impacts on availability	24
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis	24
The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on internet interconnection	22
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis	22
Connecting the other half: Exploring options for the 50% of the population unconnected to the internet	22
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Drivers of and barriers to e-commerce adoption in Indonesia: Individuals’ perspectives and the implications	21
Increasing low-income broadband adoption through private incentives	20
How does broadband infrastructure promote entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment	20
Demonetization and digitalization: The Indian government's hidden agenda	19
The evolution of cyber-insurance industry and market: An institutional analysis	19
Who uses paid over-the-top services and why? Cross-national comparisons of consumer demographics and values	19
Demand-side broadband policy in the context of digital transformation: An examination of SME digital advisory policies in Wales	19
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Does digitalization promote net job creation? Empirical evidence from WAEMU countries	19
Spectrum access options for vertical network service providers in 5G	18
Ethics of autonomous weapons systems and its applicability to any AI systems	18
Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG	18

Will 5G lead to more spectrum sharing? Discussing recent developments of the LSA and the CBRS spectrum sharing frameworks	17
The technology we choose to create: Human rights advocacy in the Internet Engineering Task Force	17
A new measure of digital economic activity and its impact on local opportunity	17
Comparative techno-economic evaluation of LTE fixed wireless access, FTTdp G.fast and FTTC VDSL network deployment for providing 30 Mbps broadband services in rural areas	17
The impact of ICT patents on economic growth: An international evidence	17
Why is South Korea at the forefront of 5G? Insights from technology systems theory	17
“Data localization”: The internet in the balance	17
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy	17
E-commerce in Spain: Determining factors and the importance of the e-trust	16
Measuring ICT externalities and their contribution to productivity: A bilateral trade based approach	16
Factors influencing K-pop artists' success on V live online video platform	16
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda	16
Quantum Artificial Intelligence: A “precautionary” U.S. approach?	15
“The Netflix effect” in Thailand: Industry and regulatory implications	15
The AI techno-economic complex System: Worldwide landscape, thematic subdomains and technological collaborations	15
Employment and the gender digital divide in Latin America: A decomposition analysis	15
ICT and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Transmission channels and effects	15
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks	15
Prediction of Wheat Production Using Machine Learning Algorithms in northern areas of Pakistan	15
Techno-economic viability of integrating satellite communication in 4G networks to bridge the broadband digital divide	14
European Union policy on 5G: Context, scope and limits	14
The social process of internet appropriation: Living in a digitally advanced country benefits less well-educated Europeans	14
Ubiquitous technologies and 5G development. Who is leading the race?	14
Mobile phones, mobile Internet, and employment in Uganda	14
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea	14
How do industrial robots applications affect the quality upgrade of Chinese export trade?	13
Does the digital economy generate a gender dividend for female employment? Evidence from China	13
Digital divides across consumers of internet services in Spain using panel data 2007–2019. Narrowing or not?	13
Population grid-based assessment of the impact of broadband expansion on population development in rural areas	13
Fibre to the countryside: A comparison of public and community initiatives tackling the rural digital divide in the UK	13
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?	13
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei	13
Impact of high-speed broadband access on local establishment dynamics	13
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production	13
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?	13
Friends or Foes? Mobile money interaction with formal and informal finance	13
Effects of data localization on digital trade: An agent-based modeling approach	13
Information and communications technology infrastructure and firm growth: An empirical study of China's cities	12
The evolution paths of neutral host businesses: Antecedents, strategies, and business models	12
Small rural operators techno-economic analysis to bring mobile services to isolated communities: The case of Peru Amazon rainforest	12
Digital dividend or digital divide? Digital economy and urban-rural income inequality in China	12
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization	12
Harmonizing regulatory regimes for the governance of patient-generated health data	12
Normfare: Norm entrepreneurship in internet governance	12
E-commerce by individuals in Spain using panel data 2008–2016	12
Socio-spatial patterns of the national broadband network revealed: Lessons from greater Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane	11
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China	11
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future	11
ICTs quality and quantity and the margins of trade	11
The mobile phone technology, gender inclusive education and public accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa	11
Industry consortia in mobile telecommunications standards setting: Purpose, organization and diversity	11
Data portability effects on data-driven innovation of online platforms: Analyzing Spotify	11
Reforming funding of universal access to telecommunications and broadband services: Approaches for the new decade	11
Digital platforms in Africa: A case-study of Jumia Egypt's digital platform	11
Public policy targets in EU broadband markets: The role of technological neutrality	11
The ‘China’ question in mobile Internet standard-making: Insights from expert interviews	11
Internet governance in the “post-truth era”: Analyzing key topics in “fake news” discussions at IGF	10
ICT for healthy and active aging: The elderly as first and last movers	10
A ‘biased’ emerging governance regime for artificial intelligence? How AI ethics get skewed moving from principles to practices	10
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study	10
Personalized pricing for customer retention: Theory and evidence from mobile communication	10
AI impacts on economy and society: Latest developments, open issues and new policy measures	10
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication	10
Churn and loyalty behavior of Turkish digital natives: Empirical insights and managerial implications	10
Could information and communication technology (ICT) reduce carbon emissions? The role of trade openness and financial development	10
Assessing fifteen years of State Aid for broadband in the European Union: A quantitative analysis	10
IPTV vs. emerging video services: Dilemma of telcos to upgrade the broadband	9
Standard essential patents and global ICT value chains with a focus on the catching-up of China	9
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide	9
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs	9
Toward the adoption of digital assistive technology: Factors affecting older people's initial trust formation	9
The role of epistemic communities in the “constitutionalization” of internet governance: The example of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence	9
A business case for 5G services in an industrial sea port area	9
Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families	9
The effect of mobile phone penetration on the quality of life	9
Movie characteristics as determinants of download-to-own performance in the Korean video-on-demand market	8
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison	8
Evaluation of import substitution strategy in Indian telecom sector: Empirical evidence of non-linear dynamics	8
The economic impact of mobile broadband speed	8
Is Netflix a threat to the cable TV industry? Evidence from Brazil	8

5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries	8
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective	8
The nature of the Artificially Intelligent Firm - An economic investigation into changes that AI brings to the firm	8
Regional differences in residential demand for very high bandwidth broadband internet in 2025	8
What is civil society and who represents civil society at the IGF? An analysis of civil society typologies in internet governance	8
Cashlessness in India: Vision, policy and practices	7
A tale of two reforms: Telecommunications reforms in Mexico	7
ICT interaction with trade, FDI and financial inclusion on inclusive growth in top African nations ranked by ICT development	7
Counting standard contributions to measure the value of patent portfolios - A tale of apples and oranges	7
How information and communication technology drives (routine and non-routine) jobs: Structural path and decomposition analysis for China	7
Is better access to mobile networks associated with increased mobile money adoption? Evidence from the micro-data of six developing countries	7
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
ICTs quality and technical efficiency: An empirical analysis	7
Evolution of the internet gender gaps in Spain and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic	7
Exploring the feasibility of rural broadband cooperatives in the United States: The new New Deal?	6
Social media and happiness nexus in the millennial generation	6
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?	6
The effect of government 5G policies on telecommunication operators’ firm value: Evidence from China	6
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement	6
Driving information communication technology for tax revenue mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Idea entrepreneurs: The United Nations Open-Ended Working Group & cybersecurity	6
Estimating the deployment costs of broadband universal service via fiber networks in Korea	6
Implementing policy on next-generation broadband networks and implications for equity of access to high speed broadband: A case study of Australia's NBN	6
Not too much nor too little: Salience bias in mobile plan choices	6
What rules the Internet? A study of the troubled relation between Web standards and legal instruments in the field of privacy	6
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada	6
The characteristics of videos on demand for television programs and the determinants of their viewing patterns: Evidence from the Korean IPTV market	6
The effects of internet proliferation on search engine and over-the-top service markets	6
Technological sovereignty of the EU in advanced 5G mobile communications: An empirical approach	6
Broadband technology opportunities program public computer center grants and residential broadband adoption	6
The impact of telecommunications regulation on less well-off Mexican households	5
Analysis of the socio-economic determinants of mobile money adoption and use in Cameroon	5
China 5G: Opportunities and Challenges	5
Polish experience from first-ever spectrum auction	5
The tribal digital divide: Extent and Explanations	5
Interoperability of interpersonal communications services – A consumer perspective	5
Convergence and determinants of ICT development in case of emerging market economies	5
What do telecommunications policy academics have to fear from GPT-3?	5
Impact of broadband penetration on U.S. Farm productivity: A panel approach	5
Improving broadband policy design using market data: A general framework and an application to Brazil	5
Public-private partnership for building a resilient broadband infrastructure in Puerto Rico	5
Network effects in mobile telecommunications markets: A comparative analysis of consumers' preferences in five Latin American countries	5
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems	5
The heterogeneous role of broadband access on establishment entry and exit by sector and urban and rural markets	5
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa	5
What $2.5 billion can buy: The effect of the Broadband Initiatives Program on farm productivity	5
Technological change, completeness of financing microstructures, and impact on well-being and income inequality	5
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
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis	5
The impact of spectrum assignment policies on consumer welfare	5
Coopetition, standardization and general purpose technologies: A framework and an application	5
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies	5
Telecommunications and Space Debris: Adaptive Regulation Beyond Earth	5
Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community	4
Telecommunications industry efficiency: A comparative analysis of high and middle income countries	4
Differentiating mobile broadband policies across diffusion stages: A panel data analysis	4
Factors affecting the sustainability of telecentres in developing countries	4
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins	4
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle	4
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system	4
A longitudinal analysis of broadband provision in tribal areas	4
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus	4
Can upgrading information infrastructure improve the innovation ability of companies? Empirical evidence from China	4
Toward new guardrails for the information society	4
Your privacy for a discount? Exploring the willingness to share personal data for personalized offers	4
Use of blockchain in the agri-food value chain: State of the art in Spain and some lessons from the perspective of public support.	4
Is your netflix a substitute for your telefunken? Evidence on the dynamics of traditional pay TV and OTT in Latin America	4
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness	4
Do ‘dig once’ and permitting policies improve fiber availability?	4
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect	4
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	4
Patent pools in 5G: The principles for facilitating pool licensing	4
Testing the economics of the net neutrality debate	4
Does the internet kill newspapers? The case of South Korea	4
The evolving 5G case study in United States unilateral spectrum planning and policy	4
The use of ICTs and income distribution in Brazil: A machine learning explanation using SHAP values	4
Evaluating the effects of ICT core elements on CO2 emissions: Recent evidence from OECD countries	4
A preview of the broadband fabric: Opportunities and issues for researchers and policymakers	4
Regulating the use of facial recognition technology across borders: A comparative case analysis of the European Union, the United States, and China	4