Americans have long believed in upward mobility and the narrative of the American Dream. Even in the face of rising income inequality and substantial empirical evidence that economic mobility has declined in recent decades, many Americans remain convinced of the prospects for upward mobility....

A conventional wisdom holds that competition for broadband and wireless services has declined in the United States over the past 20 years. This note provides an updated comparison of the US with other rich countries, focusing on prices, speed, and investment. Contrary to some recent...

The business sectors for Mobile telephones are one of the most violent today because of expanded rivalry and changing purchaser brand inclinations. Today, cell phones are utilized for different purposes when contrasted with the reasons for which they were utilized during its underlying long...

The study attempts to analyse the gap in service quality of Telecom sector in terms of customers’ expectations and perceptions regarding mobile phone services. It is important to explore and map the differences which indicate that there is scope for improvement on behalf of the mobile phone...

Civil registration in developing countries is only slowly improving, and least so in Sub-Saharan Africa. An important reason why this is the case has been identified across countries: the problematic and costly access for the public to civil registration services. When early in the 2010s mobile...

The demand for wireless technology has outpaced the ability for the many disparate spectrum systems to coexist and satisfy increasing performance constraints, warranting the need for more flexible policy frameworks that can be both integrative and innovative. Although radio spectrum is scarce,...

We investigate search costs for farmers and traders, by measuring how the introduction of mobile phones in Mozambique affected maize producer prices and traders’ margins. Our estimations are based on weekly producer and retail prices of white maize grain, from July 1997 to December 2009, for...

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...

This article explores the actions of Chinese stakeholders as norm entrepreneurs in mobile Internet standard-making within the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Through semi-structured interviews with key experts from the Internet stakeholder communities, this article contextualises a...

This paper examines firms’ choices to use mobile platforms — namely iOS and Android. Using Crunchbase® data on startups seeking external funding, we find that 16 of 47 business categories are likely to use mobile platforms. 10 of these 16 exhibit no platform preferences, implying...