info: Volume 8 Issue 6
Table of contents
Broadband pricing strategies
Phillippa Biggs, Tim KellyThis article seeks to consider why broadband technologies have been so successful in reaching such a large number of new users so quickly, and what characteristics of its pricing…
Broadband penetration and broadband competition: evidence and analysis in the EU market
Spyros E. Polykalas, Kyriakos G. VlachosTo examine broadband competition and broadband penetration in a set of countries that employ the same regulation framework. To define the policy and strategy required to promote…
EU spectrum reform and the Wireless Access Policy for Electronic Communications Services (WAPECS) concept
Rajen AkaluTo provide an evaluation of an EU spectrum policy proposal aimed at furthering the goals of the i2010 Information Society initiative.
A cost‐benefit analysis of real‐money trade in the products of synthetic economies
Edward CastronovaMacro goals: To alert the telecommunications policy community to the emergence of persistent online worlds as a communications and policy issue. Also to provide game industry…
Adoption of low mobility services: “Little‐Smart” in China as a case
Zixiang (Alex) Tan, Hsiang Chen, Xiaozhong LiuThis paper documents and examines the course of the Little‐Smart deployment in China by looking closely at the technology comparison, demand pull and supply push, as well as…
Divestiture as a strategic option for change in NITEL: lessons from the BT and AT&T experience
G. Udechukwu Ojiako, Stuart MaguireAs NITEL, Nigeria's former national carrier, has been unable to cope with provision requirements needed by the country to support its development needs, this has led to changes in…