Telecommunications Policy
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 13:23Socio-spatial patterns of the national broadband network revealed: Lessons from greater Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is the largest public infrastructure project in the history of Australia. The goal of the NBN is to provide Australians with broadband internet access by using a mix of technologies, ranging from fibre and hybrid fibre-coaxial to fixed wireless and satellite platforms. Although the NBN is a public project, one of the more vexing aspects of its evolution is its lack of data transparency. There is virtually no information on platform use or footprint distribution throughout the country.
Determinants of mobile broadband use in developing economies: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Broadband is seen as a vector of economic growth and social development. In the developing world, mobile technologies are widely adopted and mobile broadband is progressively rolled-out with high expectations on its impact on the countries’ development. We highlight what the determinants of mobile broadband use are in four Sub-Saharan countries. Using micro-level data coming from household surveys over 5 years, from 2013 to 2017, we show that SIM card ownership and being part of an online social community has a strong positive impact on mobile broadband use.
Telecommunications industry efficiency: A comparative analysis of high and middle income countries (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/12/2020 - 15:41Examining the prospects for Gigabit Broadband: Lessons learned from Google Fiber
This study examines possible lessons learned from the deployment of residential Gigabit networks based upon the novel approach taken by the Google Fiber project started in 2010. Even though Google Fiber paused any project expansion in 2016, calling into question the viability of their business model, the approach taken by Google Fiber elicits further research interest given four major innovations that this analysis identifies in its fiber-to-the-home business model.
Implementing policy on next-generation broadband networks and implications for equity of access to high speed broadband: A case study of Australia's NBN
In this article we draw on our recent case study research to examine the policy (and politics) shaping implementation of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) and its likely effects on equity of access to high speed broadband (HSB) services. We monitored NBN policy and implementation from 2015 to 2018 through policy documents, reports, and media. We found that equity considerations competed with political and commercial imperatives during the rollout of the NBN.