Adoption of 3G cellular technology varies widely across countries and regions. Past scholarly works have shown that lower levels of adoption of previous technology and higher levels of income are significant factors in accelerating the take up of new technology in mobile telephony. This apart,...

Advent of mobile Internet has brought the telecommunication market on the cusp of new era: voice services no longer dominate use. The regulators are challenged with new innovations, surging demand, and evolving market. We conduct a cross-national analysis to ascertain the effect of regulatory...

The goal of this research is to examine the regulator's preparedness to aid the gradual diffusion of new inventions. In this paper we look at the advent of IP telephony, commonly known as Voice-over-IP, in different markets of the world. We examine the regulatory approaches to embrace and...

This paper presents a cross-national analysis on the effect of the politics and regulatory governance on the diffusion of mobile cellular technology. There has been a substantial literature devoted to the regulatory practices both in the developing and developed world. However, we take a...

Indonesia is one of the countries that has not yet successfully completed digital switchover (DSO). We scrutinize the institutional and regulatory challenges that Indonesia is facing to free up the spectrum. We analyze the reasons behind a decade-long delay and ongoing endeavors to implement DSO...