Theorizing the policy process -- Comparing state and society -- Setting mobile standards -- Rolling out new media technologies -- Planning for broadband -- Universalizing access -- Learning from comparisons.

This paper focuses on the impact of the widespread penetration and use of intelligent mobile devices, particularly smartphones, married to broadband mobile networks, in China and India. China and India are the largest and second largest mobile markets in the world, with some 1.3 billion and 1.2...