Personal data brokers (PDBs) offer consumers financial rewards for their personal data that they have created at online content and service providers (CSPs) as a by-product of their usage. Policy makers view PDBs as a promising building block for empowering users in the digital economy and have...

The beginning of federal communications regulatory policy was the Post Roads Act of 1886. So spoke the Federal Communications Commission on its Silver Anniversary.It's 1866. The Civil War is over. Western Union has won. Southern telegraph competition had been turned into tree tinsel. A grateful...

This paper proposes a new model of imperfect competition of ad-sponsored media, which can sell "free" products, for a merger analysis applicable to the mobile app industry. To analyze developers’ monetizing with both price and advertising in an app, we consider a consumer who faces both budget...

Prompted by recent open data policies, public sector information is increasingly published for commercial re-use. Such open government data is especially motivated by three policy goals: innovation, competition and societal benefits. However, analyses of how open government data affects...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is critical infrastructure for the Internet. The growth in size and complexity of the DNS, together with changes in its governance and operational practices, have raised numerous challenges. Herein, we provide a qualitative and empirical overview of DNS ecosystem...

Traditionally, spectrum allocation has been governed by centralized schemes (e.g., command-and-control). Nonetheless, other mechanisms, such as collaborative enforcement, have proven to be successful in a variety of scenarios. In Collaborative enforcement (i.e., collective action), the...

Using data from the WCIS (World Cellular Information Service) and the Telecoms Market Matrix of Analysis Mason, we were able to build a database relating the level of investment per capita to license duration for 14 countries over a 10-year period. An empirical analysis of the data shows a...

Over a quarter century has passed since IP addresses from the Internet's now globally ubiquitous (IPv4) address pool first began to be distributed to and used by operators of the 28,000 and counting independent routing domains that constitute today's Internet. At current demand rates, the total...

This research paper examines the formation of an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in a country with a low level of telecommunications competition in the Global South. The research applies the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) framework to the policy dynamics around the first IXP formed in Mexico,...