This paper critically examines the effectiveness of spectrum set-asides as a policy tool to address distributional objectives in telecommunications across four diverse national contexts: Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. Spectrum allocation is a crucial factor for the...

The services that run on telecommunications providers' infrastructure have evolved from essential to the day-to-day functioning to hyper critical to the minute-by-minute functioning of modern society. Telecommunications firms have however been increasingly exposed to competition and diminishing...

The most striking feature of South Africa's mobile market is the skewed allocation of spectrum and a seemingly endless sequence of failed attempts to hold an auction. A shortage of spectrum (or, inefficient assignment of it) is blamed for South Africa's relatively slow LTE speeds, among other...

Rewheel, a Finnish consultancy, periodically issues reports that it portrays as international competitiveness comparisons of retail prices for mobile wireless services across the globe. However, these comparisons are not accurate representations of the state of competition in the mobile wireless...

The debate on network neutrality over the past decade has evolved (in the academic sphere but not so much in public) to include sophisticated considerations of the welfare enhancing or reducing effects of mandating network neutrality. For example, in a model by Economides and Hermalin (2012) it...

File sharing, typically involving video or audio material in which copyright may persist and using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like BitTorrent, has been reported to make up the bulk of Internet traffic (Pouwelse et al., 2008; Kryczka et al., 2011). The free-riding problem appears in this "digital...

The proliferation of business data and on-demand computing have propelled the use of artificial intelligence methods in quantitative forecasting. Machine learning has a prominent role in solving clustering and classification problems as well as dimensionality reduction. Nevertheless, traditional...

Vertical separation of upstream network operations from downstream retail activities, as the most extreme form of access regulation, has long been considered a legitimate regulatory remedy against use of market power in upstream infrastructure markets to engage in price- and non-price...