In this article, we study the determinants of the demand for mobile telephone networks using
observations on 64 countries. More specifically, we estimate the access demand by …

The American Enterprise Institute's Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation present
new research on telecommunications policy, with particular emphasis on reforms of federal …

Local telecommunications competition was an important goal of the 1996
Telecommunications Act. We evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential …

The remarkable development of Japan's broadband (BB) market has attracted attention
worldwide. This paper is one of the first to analyze Japan's BB demand (including FTTH) …

The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life for many Americans, yet a
sizable gap still exists in household broadband adoption. Previous studies of the digital …

In addition to the wireless telephony boom, a similar exponentially increasing trend in
wireless data service—for example, short message service (SMS)—is visible as technology …

The recent roll-out of fibre-optic cable suggests that the willingness of households in passed
communities to subscribe to networked services is an important issue. This paper studies the …

This paper uses data from nationally representative household surveys conducted in 17
African countries to analyse mobile adoption and usage. The paper shows that countries …

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are
considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention …

Normative economic analysis traditionally has pointed toward the merits of policies wherein
prices reflect the economic cost of providing a good or service. Subsidization policies are …