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Harnessing the Power of ICT and Innovation Case Study Singapore

Tan, Angie - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014

The penetration and effects of ICT varies amongst countries. For small countries like Singapore the effects of ICT is … especially prominent. This paper focuses on how Singapore exploited the benefits of ICT by analyzing first the evolution of ICT … policies and the important role of the government in its development. Followed by the question how ICT has impacted the country …

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ICT Modernization in Central and Eastern Europe

Kubielas, Stanislaw; Olender-Skorek, Magdalena - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2014

The paper characterizes main trends in ICT implementation and diffusion in the CEE countries in terms of market volume …, its dynamics, economic development and ICT trade integration within the EU market. This gives support to the hypothesis of … gradual closing up of technology gap in ICT sector between the CEE and the ‘old’ EU countries in the course of the ongoing …

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Trends in Regulating the Global Digital Economy

Sutherland, Ewan - 2018

Digital technologies are being adopted at a faster pace than previous waves of innovation, and their use is re-shaping administration and business, consumer behaviour and social interactions. They are subject to widely varying regimes, from lightly regulated but heavily standardised global...

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A Point of View : Net Neutrality Regulation in the United States

Esbin, Barbara S. - 2013

The United States moved closer to Net Neutrality regulation this year when the Federal Communications Commission found that Comcast, a cable broadband Internet service provider, violated a set of Internet policy principles the FCC adopted in 2005 by limiting peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. The...

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Paving the way for better telecom performance: Evidence from the telecommunication sector in MENA countries

Ezzat, Riham Ahmed - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015

Since the 1980s, developing countries started adopting telecom reforms due to pressures from international institutions. However, Middle East and North African (MENA) countries lagged in adopting such reforms. Even after introducing telecom reforms in the MENA region beginning in 1995, not all...

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Network Neutrality and Industry Structure

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; … - 2007

One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...

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Wireless Net Neutrality : From Carterfone to Cable Boxes

Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013

Over the past few months there have been calls to impose "wireless net neutrality" rules on the burgeoning United States wireless industry. These critics assert that certain practices by the wireless industry - such as handset "locking" practices, data bandwidth limitations, and control over...

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Expanding the Digital Divide : Network Management Regulations and the Size of Providers

Ford, George S.; Spiwak, Lawrence J.; Stern, Michael L. - 2014

One goal of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”) is to provide all Americans with access to affordable broadband services, particularly to those Americans living in rural markets where demand and cost conditions do not favor network deployment. At the same time, there...

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Using Auction Results to Forecast the Impact of Wireless Carterfone Regulation on Wireless Networks (Second Edition)

Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2013

In the last year, many advocates have called for the imposition of Carterfone regulation on the wireless industry. The FCC partially heeded this call when it imposed open platform regulations on one substantial block of spectrum (the Upper C block) that was recently part of the record-setting...

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Regulatory Policies in Relation to Metrics and Data Collection for Measuring the Emergent Internet

Hallingby, Hanne Kristine; Elaluf-Calderwood, Silvia; … - 2013

The Internet is currently undergoing a major process of change and transformation. It is moving away from a basic model of layered architecture to a modular architecture with integrated provisioning of digital services and products to users (Garud, Kumaraswamy et al. 2003; Clark 2004; Fransman, 2010 and...

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