The main tradeoff in designing freemium services is how much of the product to offer for free. At the heart of such a tradeoff is the balancing act of providing a valuable free product in order to acquire and engage consumers, while making the free product limited enough to entice some consumers...

We develop a consumer level demand model of telecommunications and broadcasting services considering an exhaustive set of alternatives available to consumers including bundled services. We then estimate switching costs associated with bundling. Previous studies consider restricted choice sets...

In this article we study the impact of taxation in the telecommunications sector. In order to do so, we develop a model considering the taxes and fees imposed directly or indirectly along the telecommunications value chain. Overall, we find evidence of a negative impact on investment from an...

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

Telecom’s Road to 2030: “What if We Were to Do Nothing?”By 2030, current U.S. broadband policy may be unable to fulfill its mission of providing all Americans with equal access to the capabilities of advanced digital products and services, while geopolitical competitors forge ahead. This...

The European Union’s digital future is counting on fast and robust development of 5G networks. However, this fast deployment of 5G networks represents, on one hand, not only brings an incentive but rather a necessity to co-operate, to share some components of this new infrastructure under the...

The mobile telecommunication (telecom) sector has become the basic source of information now-a-days especially in Cameroon. It is used to transfer and deliver information through voice, video, data, graphics, and more at perpetually increasing speeds. The quality of mobile services does not only...

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the difference between the financial position of Omantel and Ooredoo and to investigate performance efficiency of Omantel and Ooredoo.Design/methodology/approach: The secondary data was obtained from the annual reports of Oman's major telecom...

The study focuses on the relationship between intellectual stimulation and employee engagement of telecommunication companies in Port Harcourt. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey method. The study population was one hundred and seventy-eight (178) employees of four mobile...

This study is focusing on the customer perception towards service quality in the telecommunication industry in Malaysia. Penetration rate in Malaysia have gone more than 100% and it means that each one of the people in Malaysia have at least one account registered with the telecommunication...