When one talks of a ‘shoestring’ budget, it is understood that reference is being made to constrained finances, where individuals make attempts to cut costs through various methods without harming utility. This paper looks at the use of ‘strategies’ by such ‘shoestring’ users to...

The Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) survey presented in this paper is a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the Telecom Regulatory and Policy Environment of a country. It asks senior stakeholders to assess the effectiveness (efficacy) of the regulatory and policy environment in the...

The scope of this paper is the regulatory environment within which telecom operators and potential new entrants function, that is, a subset of the overall Regulatory Risk environment here described as the “Telecom Regulatory Environment” (TRE) that includes only the telecom-specific aspects....