info: Volume 12 Issue 3

Leading digital economies: a best practice approach to converged regulation

Steve Burdon, William Webb, Nigel Courtney

Over the past decade telecommunications media and technology (TMT) has driven a new era that has evolved into the digital age. There is a growing consensus in developed countries…

What lies beyond the second Roaming Regulation?

Ewan Sutherland

The purpose of the paper is to review the progress made with the EU Roaming Regulation and to identify policy options from the review that the EC must now undertake.

Mobile operators in the new millennium – retrospect and prospect

Peter Curwen, Jason Whalley

The objective of this paper is primarily to look back over developments in the mobile sector during the period 1999‐present (mid‐2009).

Patterns of E‐Rate funding to school districts: an eight state comparison

Eun‐A Park, Krishna Jayakar

The E‐Rate program has been widely applauded for helping American schools achieve almost 100 percent internet connectivity, up from 14 percent in 1996. However, mismanagement and…

VoIP network architectures and impacts on costing

Juan Rendon Schneir, Thomas Plückebaum

This paper aims to describe the effect of VoIP network architectures on the cost modelling of termination rates of VoIP services.

A business model for municipal FTTH/B networks: the case of rural Greece

Costas Troulos, Vasilis Merekoulias, Vasilis Maglaris

In recent years, many municipalities have made investments in fiber to the home/building (FTTH/B) infrastructures to enhance the digital future of their local communities. This…

Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power

Christopher Marsden

A new decade dawns, but what lies ahead?

Peter Curwen