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Book Synopsis Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation by : Véronique Wavre
Download or read book Policy Diffusion and Telecommunications Regulation written by Véronique Wavre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates regulatory reforms in the telecommunications sector of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. It explores telecommunications innovations in three developing economies (Morocco, Jordan and Egypt), with a focus on regional and European trends in telecommunications policies. Common knowledge suggests that the European Union and its member states are the main influential regulatory power in the MENA region. However, the empirical analysis of selected telecommunications regulations: universal service obligation (USO) and spectrum management, reveals that reforms are not always determined by European countries but may also originate from other developing countries, such as Peru and Chile. This finding attests to the rise of regulatory influence from the Global South, which challenges traditional transfers of regulations originating from more industrially advanced countries.
Book Synopsis Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications by : Kirsten Rodine-Hardy
Download or read book Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications written by Kirsten Rodine-Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time? Kirsten L. Rodine-Hardy argues that international organizations – not national governments or market forces – are the primary drivers of policy convergence in the important arena of telecommunications regulation: they create and shape preferences for reform and provide forums for expert discussions and the emergence of policy standards. Yet she also shows that international convergence leaves room for substantial variation among countries, using both econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons of eight European countries.
Book Synopsis Down to the Wire by : Allan L. Shampine
Download or read book Down to the Wire written by Allan L. Shampine and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, regulators and businesses have struggled to keep pace with an onslaught of new technologies that has dramatically changed the world's telecommunications networks. This book gathers together research intended for those who must grapple with these changes -- the people who must decide whether and how to deploy new telecommunications technologies, and those who must regulate the technologies. The research is divided into three sections focusing on the past, present and future of telecommunications innovations. The first section, Lessons from the Past, examines what lessons concerning adoption and regulation can be learned by studying the diffusion of recent telecommunications technologies. The second section, Decision Making with Respect to Diffusing Technologies, examines possible improvements to the decision-making processes used by companies and regulators in the face of limited information and dynamic markets. The final section, Public Policy and Future Diffusion, examines public policy implications for future technologies.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Impact of Policy, Regulation and Governance on Mobile Broadband Diffusion in the Developing World by : David J. Yates
Download or read book Understanding the Impact of Policy, Regulation and Governance on Mobile Broadband Diffusion in the Developing World written by David J. Yates and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2012 edition of the World Bank's Information and Communications for Development report urges countries to increase mobile broadband diffusion in order to improve the state of agriculture, health, financial services, employment and government in the developing world (World Bank, 2012). The main goal of our research is to identify public policy alternatives, regulatory measures, and governing practices that increase the adoption of mobile broadband in developing countries, which have largely adopted a "mobile first" strategy for on-line services. In achieving this goal, we show that different models are necessary to understand mobile broadband diffusion in the developed and developing worlds. Past cross-national research that examined broadband diffusion has been limited mainly to OECD countries (e.g., Lee, Marcu & Lee, 2011). Yet, findings from these studies have been generalized to apply to developed and developing nations alike. This study examines the impact of policy, regulation and governance on mobile broadband diffusion in 131 countries. In the OECD countries, there is greater diffusion of mobile broadband in countries that make a higher financial investment in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and that practice more effective governance. The degree of competitiveness of the telecommunications sector and more specific measures of governance (i.e., the Telecommunications Regulatory Governance Index proposed by Waverman & Koutroumpis (2011)) do not affect mobile broadband diffusion. In developing countries, national wealth matters a great deal, but greater competition in the telecommunications sector, higher financial investment in ICTs, and telecommunications regulatory governance also significantly increase mobile broadband diffusion. This research also extends previous findings that connect bridging information and communication divides with political structure (Norris, 2001) and institutional governance (Levy & Spiller, 1996). While we confirm that these factors do not affect mobile diffusion in developed countries, they are important factors in developing countries. The broader regulatory environment and how government is practiced (i.e., governance) are important variables, however, for understanding outcomes such as widespread access to new ICTs in developed countries. In sum, we found that public policy initiatives, democratic institutions and effective regulatory governance matter, and can mitigate, to some extent, the advantages enjoyed by most developed countries. While we present strong evidence that national policy, regulation and governance are all important, we also show that resources in terms of wealth (in developing countries) and education (in developed countries) matter more for leveraging the benefits of mobile technologies for digital inclusion. Thus, we also show the limits that policy initiatives and related factors have in bridging the mobile broadband divide, at least in the short-term. Finally, it is important for policymakers to be aware and to understand that the path to widespread adoption of mobile broadband requires different strategies depending on a nation's level of economic, political and institutional development. Note: This empirical research is based on multiple regression analysis of several models that combine and separate OECD and non-OECD countries. The variables associated with each country are derived from publically available data reported by the United Nations, World Bank, ITU, OECD, CIA World Fact Book, and also Waverman & Koutroumpis (2011, Telecommunications Policy) and Pemstein, Meserve & Melton (2010, Political Analysis). Some of these variables are used as-is whereas others are aggregated into indeces that we have developed, for example, to measure telecommunications competition and financial investment in ICTs. This is original research that has not been presented at or published in an alternative outlet.
Book Synopsis Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion in the Telecommunications Sector by : Veronique Lisa Wavre
Download or read book Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion in the Telecommunications Sector written by Veronique Lisa Wavre and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Competition, Regulation, and Convergence by : Sharon E. Gillett
Download or read book Competition, Regulation, and Convergence written by Sharon E. Gillett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telecommunications industry has experienced dynamic changes over the past several years, and those exciting events and developments are reflected in the chapters of this volume. The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) holds an unrivaled place at the center of national public policy discourse on issues in communications and information. TPRC is one of the few places where multidisciplinary discussions take place as the norm. The papers collected here represent the current state of research in telecommunication policy, and are organized around four topics: competition, regulation, universal service, and convergence. The contentious competition issues include bundling as a strategy in software competition, combination bidding in spectrum auctions, and anticompetitive behavior in the Internet. Regulation takes up telephone number portability, decentralized regulatory decision making versus central regulatory authority, data protection, restrictions to the flow of information over the Internet, and failed Global Information Infrastructure initiatives. Universal service addresses the persistent gap in telecommunications from a socioeconomic perspective, the availability of competitive Internet access service and cost modeling. The convergence section concentrates on the costs of Internet telephony versus circuit switched telephony, the intertwined evolution of new services, new technologies, and new consumer equipment, and the politically charged question of asymmetric regulation of Internet telephony and conventional telephone service.
Book Synopsis Industry Structure, Regulatory Choices and the Diffusion of Telecommunications Services by : Krishna P. Jayakar
Download or read book Industry Structure, Regulatory Choices and the Diffusion of Telecommunications Services written by Krishna P. Jayakar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Diffusion of Regulatory Policy Across Nations by : Irene Wu
Download or read book Diffusion of Regulatory Policy Across Nations written by Irene Wu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of around 200 countries in the world, only 75 have number portability. What are the international factors that explain the diffusion of this regulatory policy? Research on policy diffusion offers several explanations: constructivist, coercion, competition, and learning. Each of these theories is explored based on a dataset that tracks the implementation of number portability, fixed phone competition and mobile phone competition, and documentary evidence gathered from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), European Union, and the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL). In these three regulatory issue areas, Asia, Americas, and Europe are the three regions that innovate first; Middle East and Africa follow later on. Further, Hong Kong and New Zealand in Asia and Canada, Chile, and the US in Americas are pioneers, while others wait to see results before proceeding; learning appears to explain the diffusion pattern in these regions. In contrast, in Europe, regulatory diffusion begins early and proceeds rapidly with pioneers like Finland and United Kingdom, but others adopt without the lag time observed in Asia and Americas, very likely because of the leadership and enforcement powers of the European Union, a coercive explanation among member states and a competitive one among non-member states.
Book Synopsis Telecommunications by : Walter Sapronov
Download or read book Telecommunications written by Walter Sapronov and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a research and reference guide to the telecommunications industry in the United States, providing an account of legislative and policy changes up until the publication of the work. Contributions by scholars in telecommunications law and policy survey the post-1996 legislative field, giving overviews of the 1996 Act itself, the impact of the legislation on national and international competition, regulation of the industry and the MCI/FCC cases in California, mergers and acquisitions, taxation and FCC reform.
Book Synopsis Different Paths to Universal Access by : Jeff Gulati
Download or read book Different Paths to Universal Access written by Jeff Gulati and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the broadband digital divide by analyzing the impact of policy and regulation on broadband Internet diffusion. Our multiple regression analysis shows that factors that determine broadband diffusion in technologically developed countries do not necessarily have the same impact in less developed countries. We show that in technological developed countries, there is greater broadband diffusion in countries that make a higher financial investment in information and communication technologies and have effective regulatory and administrative practices at the national level. While these results hold in technologically developing nations, a competitive telecommunications sector also lead to greater broadband diffusion but the presence of a national telecommunications regulatory authority has a negative impact. These results suggest that the path to widespread availability and use of broadband requires different strategies depending on a nation's level of technological development.
Book Synopsis The International Radio Regulations by : Mohamed Ali El-Moghazi
Download or read book The International Radio Regulations written by Mohamed Ali El-Moghazi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth introduction to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) and the policies that govern them. Established in 1906, these regulations define the allocation of different frequency bands to different radio services, the mandatory technical parameters to be observed by radio stations, especially transmitters, and the procedures for spectrum use coordination at the international level. The book analyzes the interactions between different national policies and the ITU RR, noting how these interactions influence spectrum policy on the national level, setting up a comparative framework within which to view these regulations and their effects. Beginning with an overview of the history of the origins ITU RR, the book takes a deep dive into the components of spectrum management including radio communication service allocation, wireless technology selection, radio usage rights, and spectrum rights assignment, placing each analysis within the context of the push and pull between national and international regulations. The book concludes with chapters discussing issues affecting the future of spectrum policy, including spectrum policy reform in developing countries, the WRC-19, and IMT-2020. Shedding light on the longest-running treaty documents in the history of modern telecommunications and arguing for reforms that allow it to address the needs of all nations, this book is useful to scholars and students of telecom policy, digital policy, ICT, governance, and development as well as telecom industry practitioners and regulators.
Book Synopsis Media and Communications Policy Making by : Robert G. Picard
Download or read book Media and Communications Policy Making written by Robert G. Picard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook focuses on how media and communications policy is made and what influences its design. It explores the structures and processes in which policymaking takes place worldwide, the factors that determine its forms, influence its elements, and affect its outcomes. It explores how to analyze policy proposals, evaluate policy, and use policy studies approaches to examine policy and policymaking. Truly international in scope, it lays out the variety of political, social, economic, and institutional influences on policy, the roles of industries and policy advocates in the processes, and issues and factors that complicate effective policymaking and skew policy outcomes. This textbook is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Regulatory Authorities by : Maggetti, Martino
Download or read book Handbook of Regulatory Authorities written by Maggetti, Martino and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a comprehensive analytical collection of interdisciplinary research on regulatory authorities, this innovative Handbook combines contributions from leading scholars and regulatory practitioners to present the fundamental theoretical concepts, empirical achievements and challenges in the contemporary study of regulatory authorities.
Book Synopsis Theorizing Policy by : Peter G. Shields
Download or read book Theorizing Policy written by Peter G. Shields and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Results are discussed in terms of their implications for social influence and self-categorization theory, as well as practical implications for team effectiveness.
Book Synopsis Marketplace for Telecommunications by : Marcellus S. Snow
Download or read book Marketplace for Telecommunications written by Marcellus S. Snow and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Take Your Phone Number with You! Explaining the Diffusion of Number Portability Policy Across Nations by : Irene Wu
Download or read book Take Your Phone Number with You! Explaining the Diffusion of Number Portability Policy Across Nations written by Irene Wu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of around 200 countries in the world, only 75 have number portability. What explains the speed and pattern of diffusion of this regulatory issue? Research on policy diffusion offers several explanations: constructivist, coercion, competition, and learning. Constructivists argue that countries adopt a policy, sometimes even before they are ready, in order to appear modern and forward-looking. Coercive explanations argue that countries adopt policies because they are forced to through bilateral or multilateral agreements, for example. Competition explanations suggest that countries adopt policies in order to make them more comparatively attractive, to foreign investors, for example. Finally, the learning explanation suggests that governments' beliefs about policies change over time. They learn when observing other countries implement a policy and monitoring its effectiveness. All of these explanations apply to diffusion of some policies internationally. The challenge is to understand which explanations apply more aptly under what kind of conditions and for what kinds of policies. To see which of these explanations applies to the global diffusion of number portability regulation, and through this single issue a view to the diffusion of communications regulation more broadly, first, I have collected data on number portability, the start of fixed line phone competition, and the start of mobile phone competition in countries around the world. This global data set, centered on three regulatory issues, provides some clues as to the pace and pattern of regulatory diffusion in the communications arena. Second, I have collected qualitative information on number portability discussions in five regional organizations - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Inter-American Telecommunications Commission under the Organization of American States (CITEL), European Union, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). These documents show which and when countries were interested in number portability. These qualitative data reveal patterns and links not evident in the global quantitative datasets. Finally, the paper concludes that examining regulatory diffusion through the lens of number portability suggests that Asia, Americas, and Europe are the three regions that innovate first; Middle East and Africa follow later on. Further, that in Asia and Americas, certain countries are pioneers, while others wait to see results before proceeding; learning appears to explain the diffusion pattern in these regions. In contrast , in Europe, regulatory diffusion begins early and proceeds rapidly, without the lag time observed in Asia and Americas, very likely because of the leadership and enforcement powers of the European Union, a coercive explanation among member states and a competitive one among non-member states. The data also make it possible to identify which countries often lead in regulatory innovation; conclusions that can be tested as more data on regulatory diffusion is collected for other communications issues. This is usable knowledge that can be applied to following the current diffusion of regulatory innovations across the world.
Book Synopsis Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry by : Anastassios Gentzoglanis
Download or read book Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry written by Anastassios Gentzoglanis and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of liberalization of the telecommunications industry around the world and technological convergence that allows for increasing competition, sector-specific regulation of telecommunications has been on the decline. As a result, the telecommunications industry stands in the middle of a debate that calls for either a total deregulation of access to broadband infrastructures or a separation of infrastructure from service delivery. This book proposes new approaches to dealing with the current and future issues of regulation of telecommunication markets on both a regional and a global scale. This volume represents a valuable compendium of ideas regarding global trends in the telecommunications industry that focus on market and regulatory issues and company strategies. With an international cast of contributors, Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry also provides insight into topics including: mobile Internet development, structural function and separation, global experiences with next generation networks, technology convergence and the role of regulation, and the regulatory impact on the balance between static and dynamic efficiencies. The empirical evidence and experiences presented here illustrate the diversity of thoughts and research that characterize this important area of academic and business research. Thus, it will be a critical reference for scholars and students of regulatory economics, policy and finance and researchers and administrators of the telecom industry.
