Recently, ICT ecosystems are changing rapidly due to the increasing number of innovative products and services in these ecosystems. Among them, SNS is one of the most important elements that make up the ICT ecosystem. With the phenomenal boom of personal SNS, information and knowledge sharing...

"Informatization," a policy of integrated telecommunications development, is regarded as one of the driving forces behind the Chinese government's "new socialist countryside" program. Various national and provincial programs have been initiated to connect the agricultural communities to the...

This paper presents an analysis of the marginal value of spectrum with a focus on mobile broadband and illustrated by three country cases: India, Sweden and Thailand. The paper use an engineering valuation approach, which refers to savings that can be achieved by acquiring appropriate amount of...

The conceptual framework for understanding the logical Internet is based on the construction of a horizontal, layered architecture, which differentiates between physical-, data link-, network-, transport-, and application layers (1). This is different from the telecommunication networks model...

Recently, governments in many countries have acknowledged the higher complexity involved in finding the more efficient path towards a so-called broadband ecosystem. The governments of Australia and New Zealand are leading the deployment of national fibre-based broadband infrastructures through...

Mobile phones and Internet use can enable human capabilities that can contribute to positive developmental outcomes (Smith, Spencer, & Rashid, 2011; Ndung'u & Waema, 2011; Agüero, de Silva & Kang, 2011; Sen, 1999). Communication networks, in Africa particularly mobile phones, have been recognised as an...

The electronics and materials technology over the past decade provide new breakthroughs in the development of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) field one is on satellite technology. Currently, satellite has been getting development in miniaturizing dimension and components to the...

After a demonstration of the inefficiency of the actual system in Europe, our paper explores the regulatory reform required in the transition towards a ‘shared access spectrum’. It introduces the new spectrum management system paradigm based on recent emerging concepts, i.e. Collective Use...

This article addresses the impact of regulatory policy on levels of infrastructure deployment and derived welfare in the telecommunications sector. The model considers two potentially coexisting and partially competing techniques (the "old" ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - technique)...