Using micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, we analyse what are the determinants of mobile broadband adoption in developing economies. We provide empirical evidence on the presence of a learning effect stemming from mobile money use, which by providing a...

This work describes the potential gain of spectrum sharing between different mobile technologies. A new bandwidth allocation technique is introduced, allows coexistence and overlap between old and new (relative) mobile generations, operating over the same frequency band. The new proposed...

In this paper we present an innovative framework suitable for the next generation of wireless spectrum allocation. We call our framework - Bring Your Own Spectrum (BYOS) - to highlight the Spectrum as a Service (SaaS) nature of the architecture that allows all participants to be potential...

The last two decades have seen a lot research devoted to understanding the economic impact of telecoms infrastructure; however, the explosion of mobile technology, especially in the last decade, has received much less attention. This study addresses important evidence gaps by considering the...

This paper focuses on the relationship between over-the-top (OTT) and traditional communications services. Many analysts have stated OTT communications services might soon replace other communication services; however, the empirical study of this assumption is scarce, especially in the case of...

Assumingly very few sectors of society can avoid the digital transformation, which has been storming in the recent years. Despite of the digitalization being a global mega trend and an essence to survive in the modern world, it seems that many entities are still struggling in initiating the...

Spectrum management decisions made by the regulators aim at maximizing the value of spectrum, its efficient utilization and benefits to the society. A major debate in spectrum management globally is currently focusing on 5G spectrum bands and their awards. In fact, several countries have...

Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries' development. We highlight what the determinants of...

There is a long tradition of studies using the concept of the value of time (VoT) to assess human behavior in diverse situations. The underlying assumption in most of the studies is that when different activities are available, a rational person selects the activity that provides the highest...

There have been substantial technical and policy discussions about the spectrum needs of 5G and the necessity of expanding access to the higher frequency spectrum, including in the millimeter wave bands from 30 to 300 GHz. The focus, however, has been on bands below 60GHz, or at most 90GHz,...