Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance: Volume 20 Issue 3

The strategic national infrastructure assessment of digital communications

Edward J. Oughton, Zoraida Frias, Mischa Dohler, Jason Whalley, Douglas Sicker, Jim W. Hall, Jon Crowcroft, David D. Cleevely

Public policy requires effective identification of the current and emerging issues being faced in industry and beyond. This paper aims to identify a set of key issues currently…

Google search abuses dominant position to illegally favour Google Shopping: an economic review of the EU decision

Korbinian von Blanckenburg

This paper is concerned with the current decision of the European Commission regarding Google’s comparison shopping service (Google Shopping). In 2017, the Commission has fined…

High-speed data provision by mobile networks in the Asia-Pacific region

Peter Curwen, Jason Whalley

The purpose of this paper is to examine in a fully up-to-date manner the position in respect to the licensing and launch of long-term evolution (LTE) in a region that attracts…

Bribery and corruption in telecommunications – the case of Nigeria

Ewan Sutherland

This paper aims to examine issues of bribery, cronyism and nepotism in one of the most corrupt countries in Africa.

The governance of spectrum: a possible venue of accountability for global telecommunication

Krisztina Rozgonyi

The paper aims to explore accountability as a virtue and as a mechanism (Bovens, 2010) of global telecommunication operators in the process of governing spectrum and of broadband…

Vodafone signals the demise of copper: A regular column on the information industries

Jason Whalley, Peter Curwen