The essential input to the exploitation of mobile broadband known as radio spectrum is a scarce resource, whose allocation and eventual assignment by telecommunications regulator and spectrum authorities across the world is of outmost importance. The most popular approach to spectrum assignment...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) generate a wide range of social and economic externalities. Therefore, if ICT are not deployed and adopted within short periods of time, countries face significant social and economic opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in...