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Roaming and Investments in the Mobile Internet Market

Stühmeier, Torben - 2012

networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due … cost regulation of roaming charges. Otherwise, if MNOs are free to collaborate on investments, they set higher investment …. Furthermore, the paper discusses e ects of the roaming charge regulation on roaming quality and MNOs' coverage. …

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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe

Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022

We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile Internet increased voters' support for right-wing...

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Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Viet Nam

2023

New developments of existing technologies over time have led to emergent patterns of technology adoption and, accordingly, changing impacts on economy and society. Focusing on the arrival of mobile internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, this paperidentifiessignificant positive...

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Brecha digital de género y los determinantes del uso de Internet móvil en las mujeres artesanas textiles en el departamento de Puno, Perú

Calatayud Mendoza, Alfredo Pelayo; Llerena Zea, … - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 36 (2023), pp. 1-24

The first objective was to estimate the digital gender gap in the department of Puno in the year 2021. For this, the probit regression model with sample selection called Heckprobit was applied using data from the Residential Survey of Telecommunications Services for the year 2021 (Erestel, 2021)...

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Predictors of mobile internet usage in 10 African countries

Calandro, Enrico; Wang, Rong - 2012

Mobile phones and Internet use can enable human capabilities that can contribute to positive developmental outcomes (Smith, Spencer, & Rashid, 2011; Ndung'u & Waema, 2011; Agüero, de Silva & Kang, 2011; Sen, 1999). Communication networks, in Africa particularly mobile phones, have been recognised as an...

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Surfing mobile internet motivated by fashion attentiveness: An empirical study of mobile internet use in China

Wang, Chengjun - 2011

The research purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to test and verify the influences of fashion attentiveness on mobile communication in the context of China, and second, to analyze how fashion attentiveness moderate other demographical variables' influence on mobile Internet use, and...

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An analysis of mobile internet service in Thailand: Implications for bridging digital divide

Srinuan, Chalita; Srinuan, Pratompong; Bohlin, Erik - 2011

Mobile Internet is growing around the world without exception for developing countries like Thailand by passing the poor legacy wired infrastructure. This study attempts to provide guidance to a national regulatory agency (NRA) by addressing the following question: What are the key determining...

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From upgrade to uptake: The effect of mobile internet infrastructure on usage of local online services

Mang, Constantin - 2013

This paper provides evidence that superior mobile Internet infrastructure increases take-up of location-based online services. Using data from the largest German online platform for restaurant reviews, I find that upgrading the 2G network to 3G increases the number of restaurant reviews and the...

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Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion

Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2013

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its...

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Understanding broadband under-utilization in Japan

Bourna, Maria; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2014

Improved internet connectivity has been a consistent aim of Japanese telecommunications policy in the past decades, however, despite the high availability of high speed and ultra-high speed broadband services, actual use has yet to match network capacity. This study hopes to explore this paradox...

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