We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...

Die Nutzung von Clouddiensten bietet Unternehmen mehrere Vorteile, wie den dezentralen Datenzugriff oder die flexible Anpassung von Rechenleistung an den Bedarf. Folgerichtig hat die Cloudnutzung in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen. Der Markt für Clouddienste in...

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...

Employees in the telecom sector are knowledge workers and, thus, managers, HR professionals, and policymakers in the industry need to retain them through knowledge management policies. It is against this premise that this study investigated the effect of knowledge management on employee...

Die Deutsche Telekom ist die mit Abstand größte Betreiberin von Fest- und Mobilfunknetzen in Deutschland. Deshalb kommt ihrer strategischen Positionierung nationale Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der infrastrukturellen Grundlagen der Digitalisierung zu. Nachfolgend wird angenommen, dass diese...

This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...

Although a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include telecommunications provisions, the collection and systematization of information on telecommunications provisions in RTAs remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by mapping and reviewing the different types of provisions...

Myanmar has experienced a series of total and partial internet shutdowns since the military coup in February 2021. These restrictions have varied in intensity across the country and over time, ranging from the complete shutdown of all wireless broadband services and nightly shutdowns of fixed...

This chapter deals with the imposition and execution of universal service obligations on licensees, which was a key component of South Africa’s telecommunications reform policy and legislative framework. Rollout and connectivity targets were imposed on the fixed-line (soon to be partially...

This paper provides an analytical framework based on four factors, technological advancement, market demand, government consideration, and foreign pressure. It intends to reveal the reasons behind China’s telecommunications policymaking, explicate why the government has consistently privileged...

In Africa, Kenya is one of the countries which has had a progressive system of competition law, part of the reasons for this is because competition laws in Kenya have been in existence for more than 30 years now. This paper will interrogate the sufficiency of the Competition Act of Kenya (CA) by...

Telecommunications in South Africa is one example of the regulatory state, dating from the early 1990s and comprising the usual elements of commercial operators, ministers issuing periodic policies, a regulator, a competition authority, systems of appeal, and parliamentary oversight. Less...

The United States operates an unusual system to control international investments by foreign firms, especially those wholly or partially owned by governments, through its inter-departmental Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It is subject to considerable influence from...

This paper focuses on telecommunications reform in South Africa in general, and its universal access and service component in particular. Policy diffusion and policy transfer provides a useful framework within which to consider how South Africa was influenced by the global telecomms reform and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of service quality (SQ), trust and commitment to customer loyalty (CL) for telecom service users. Further, the moderating role of gender, marital status and connection type within the model was tested. Design/methodology/approach –...

This paper studies the causes and consequences of the adoption of technology by hospitals and public emergency response systems, focusing on Basic and Enhanced 911 services. Basic 911 allows people within a given locality to access specialized call-takers and ambulance dispatchers using the...

The telecommunications market has evolved into product-differentiatedmarkets due to the varying quality of data services. Earlier work has takenonly the price into account and has not considered quality, which is, however,an essential factor. We provide a supply-demand framework considering...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into integration processes in the CIS telecommunications sector, the prospects for telecom companies as potential targets for investment, the region’s transit potential, and integration of CIS countries into the regional and global information...

Subscription decision in the telecom market is quite complex and cumbersome, invoking decision inertia in consumers and resulting in suboptimal choices. We implemented choice inertia and consumer interaction as an agent-based model to better understand the process. The model illustrates that...

Mit der zum 1. Dezember 2021 in Kraft getretenen Novelle des Telekommunikationsgesetzes (TKG) ist der Vorrang der Versteigerung als Regelvergabeverfahren für Frequenzen bei Knappheit aufgehoben worden. Das TKG sieht zwei mögliche Vergabeverfahren für Frequenzen bei Knappheit vor: die...

Debt finance, when considered a source of finance, always leads to financial risk; however, it is also considered a source of increased profitability in the normal business scenario. It has always been challenging to find the correct debt equity combination. In the discussed sample of the...

This study analyses how ICT leaders/ managers / supervisors’ ambidextrous leadership associates with the innovative performance of employees through trust in the supervisor, self-resilience, and creative self-efficacy. Data was collected in total from 450 employees ranging from the first line...

Lignin hydropyrolysis characteristics were investigated in a high-pressure micro-reactor with on-line analysis. The effects of atmosphere, pressure, and temperature on product formation during lignin pyrolysis were quantitatively studied. The formation mechanisms of typical products were...

The newly passed German telecommunication regulation has set the deployment and sharing conditions of in-building infrastructure with the purpose of addressing the need of generating proper incentives to network operators to invest in and extend their very high capacity access networks. At the...

Although a growing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) include telecommunications provisions, the collection and systematization of information on telecommunications provisions in RTAs remain limited. This paper addresses this gap by mapping and reviewing the different types of provisions...

In the last two decades, new technologies and the rapid growth of the telecommunications sector have changed production and trade relations in world economic systems. Regional dependence on the level of productivity, supply and demand of telecommunications has increased worldwide. Our study...

African governments and the AU have supported the development of the continent’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector. China, too, has increasingly invested in that sector. This Policy Brief argues that while Beijing meets Africa’s need for the development, helps bridge the...

Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in...

The goal of the paper is to present the framework for combining clustering and classification for churn management in telecommunications. Considering the value of market segmentation, we propose a three-stage approach to explain and predict the churn in telecommunications separately for...

The telecommunication sector is one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an increased dependence of customers on telecommunications to continue their work and studies. The increased usage of internet and telecom services during the COVID-19 pandemic...

This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...

In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural model of demand to analyse the equilibrium effect of the RAN sharing by using cross-country panel data in 28 EU countries in years 2010-2020. Based on model estimates, our simulation analysis in Spain firstly provides a quantitative...

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the fundamental importance of telecommunications networks. This paper utilizes data from a large North American network operator to examine the role of telecom networks in enabling public health and economic responses to the pandemic. During the pandemic,...

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and...

Instagram’s growth has drawn the interest of many corporations that are searching for new ways to boost their customer relationships. Given the rapid adoption of Instagram marketing and the inadequate research in that field, the objective of this paper is to examine whether "following" brands...