The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic is an unprecedented attempt to collect comprehensive data on the infrastructure sectors in Africa — covering power, transport, irrigation, water and sanitation, and information and communication technology (ICT) — and to provide an integrated...

A burgeoning literature has emphasized the effects of ICT on job polarization, but there is still a lack of evidence about its impact on income distribution. In this paper, we augment income distribution and labor market data with detailed broadband data from France to investigate the impact of...

Objective: To evaluate and report a broadband & telecommunications brand-marketing exercise by sending a team of marketers on a targeted retail expedition (Practical Report, City & Guilds, 2015). Design & Procedure: A team of six marketers; four men and two women; approximate age range 24 to 52...

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are of particular interest for telecommunication companies that can significantly affect the interaction of economic agents. As a result of the growth in the number of connected devices, the introduction of cloud services and business applications it became...

This study strives to evaluate the effects of infrastructure availability and development on foreign direct investment (FDI) in host developing nations. Employing fixed effects panel estimation technique, panel data for 23 Asian developing countries, from 1990-2009 is used with...

Mobile broadband Internet access is highly important to the American economy. The benefits of mobile broadband depend on investment in deploying and upgrading network infrastructure by broadband providers. Thus investment in mobile wireless infrastructure plays a vitally important role in...

This paper aims to give an overview on a very specific field in telecommunication which is the submarine cables industry. It covers some statistics on the used international bandwidth, historical milestones and information on the submarine cables' construction, geography, ownership evolvement,...