Telecommunications Policy

Volume 1 - 49

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Volume 49, issue 8, 2025

Impact of data factor and data integration on economic development: Empirical insights from China

Zhaopeng Chu, Xin Chen and Jun Yang

Is disruption the second time around easier? The case of Iliad and the Italian telecommunications market

Shengxing Yang, Pierre Vialle and Jason Whalley

Through a screen darkly: Toward effective transparency of telecommunications supply chains

Benjamin W. Cramer

Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India

Puxin Zhang, Krishna Jayakar, Richard Taylor and Chun Liu

Overlooked – Presence and awareness cues in the metaverse

René Arnold and Anna Schneider

The digital transformation of the film industry: How Artificial Intelligence is changing the seventh art

Vasilis Tsiavos and Fotis Kitsios

Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market

Nicoletta Corrocher and Sara Paganuzzi

Lawfulness of mass processing personal data to train large language models in China

Lu Zhang

A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace

Lusi Liao and Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat

Broadband infrastructure sharing as a catalyst for rural digital economy: A systematic review for developing countries

Nyaura Kibinda, Deo Shao, Augustino Mwogosi and Cesilia Mambile

An old familiar song? Assessing the artificial intelligence divide among the regions of the European Union and its connections with digital divides

María Rosalía Vicente, Carla Álvarez-Rodríguez and Ana Suárez-Álvarez

Generative artificial intelligence in advertising. Field applications in Rio de Janeiro and Catalonia

Jordi Serra-Simón, Mònica Puntí-Brun, Sílvia Espinosa-Mirabet, Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira, Ramón Martín-Guart and Sandro Tôrres de Azevedo

Volume 49, issue 7, 2025

The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadership by the dominant US digital platforms

Sandro Mendonça, Eduardo Silva and Bruno Damásio

The phenomena of spatial spillovers of digitalization and competitiveness inside European regions

Félix Hernández de Rojas, Pilar Rodríguez Pita and Jorge Emiliano Pérez Martínez

Safeguarding media freedom from infrastructural reliance on AI companies: The role of EU law

M.Z. van Drunen

The impact of spectrum set-asides on private and public mobile networks

Jakub Zagdanski, Pau Castells and Kalvin Bahia

Digitalization and economic growth in the MENA region: Evidence from panel data analysis

Touitou Mohammed and Laib Yacine

Are we there yet? The persistent digital marginalization of remote rural communities: A mixed-method longitudinal study (2014–2023)

Isabel Pavez, Teresa Correa, Catalina Farías and Nicolás Tobar

Factors driving mobile network operator profitability in public safety mobile broadband projects

Tapio Savunen, Juuso Töyli, Pekka Kekolahti and Petri Mähönen

Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?

Jungyong Ahn and Seongcheol Kim

On the verge of a digital divide in the use of generative AI?

David Suárez and Begoña García-Mariñoso

Beyond infrastructure: Internet ecosystem resilience and the public good

Bronwyn Howell

IT investment and labor displacement: Evidence from Korea

Joonbae Lee

Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade

Lamoussa Seydou Lankoande

Shifting tides: How public perceptions of GPT regulation evolved before and after GPT-4 on Quora

Yipeng Xi and Luu Thuc Ngan Mai

Social media access and purposeful use in China: Geospatial patterns and socioeconomic and COVID-19 influences

James B. Pick, Fang Ren and Avijit Sarkar

E-commerce in Spain: Trends, growth, and market dynamics (2018–2021)

Mona Farid Badran, Rafael López, Angel Valarezo and Teodosio Pérez-Amaral

Volume 49, issue 6, 2025

The effect of gender inequality in internet access on energy poverty: A preliminary investigation in developing countries

Juan Ma and Henri Njangang

Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China

Juan Wang

Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband

Edward J. Oughton

Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry

Wen-yi Hsu

Estimating private costs in a descending clock auction: The FCC’s rural digital opportunity fund

Ignacio J. Núñez

Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats

Nir Kshetri

Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis

Jiaxuan Li, Yifan Luo and Qinjian Yuan

Resilience in telecommunications networks: A Korean case study

Min Hyeok Kang and Seongcheol Kim

Volume 49, issue 5, 2025

Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges

Zoraida Frias, William Lehr and Volker Stocker

The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries

Damian Tambini

Automating spectrum sharing: A bottom-up approach and research agenda

William Lehr, Randall Berry, Igor Kadota, Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas, Kangle Mu, Zongyun Xie and Irfan Tamim

Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages

Cornelia Brantner, Michael Karlsson and Joanne Kuai

Promoting free flows via competition law: An AI industry blueprint for Southeast Asia

Chad Patrick Osorio and Jamlech Iram Gojo Cruz

A question of strategic legislation: Can the EU deal with cybersecurity issues in space?

Francesco Cappelletti and Vagelis Papakonstantinou

Evaluating structural and behavioral remedies for anticompetitive conducts in the ad tech ecosystem

Alexander Witte and Jan Krämer

Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans

Jessica Mazurek and Raul Prey

Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States

Bronwyn E. Howell and Petrus H. Potgieter

Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach

Claudia Zola

Volume 49, issue 4, 2025

Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications

Peter Jiang, Joe Rowsell and Stephen Schmidt

Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider

Kurt A. Pflughoeft, Nikolaus T. Butz and Alick Corbley

Impacts of the USDA Community Connect broadband program on broadband speeds in rural areas

Joshua Goldstein and John Pender

How to relieve mobile network overload from mobile over-the-top (OTT) traffic: Proposing a user-based content-sharing solution

Hee Soo Kim, Yumi Jang, Sang Hyun Lee and Seongcheol Kim

Does artificial intelligence matter for the population aging-inclusive growth nexus? International evidence

Huwei Wen, Junjie Shang and Xuan-Hoa Nghiem

Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy

Ewan Sutherland

Assessing digitalization and the economy: A dynamic recursive CGE modelling approach

David Okorie, Adeniran Adedeji and Chinedu Ifionu

Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet

Kamel Dine Remili, Nadjoua Bouzourine, Riad Hartani and Adel Belouchrani

From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges

Roger Chifeng Liu, Hsin-wei Tang, Yuchen Kao and Yuntsai Chou

Volume 49, issue 3, 2025

Framing metaverse identity: A multidimensional framework for governing digital selves

Liang Yang, Yan Xu and Pan Hui

Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility

Eli Noam

A market analysis on data ecosystem initiators and their value propositions in different ecosystems

Maarten de Mildt, Sofie Verbrugge and Didier Colle

A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea

SunKyung Shin and Jooyeun Park

A dispute between Netflix and SK Broadband in South Korea: Who should pay the network usage fees?

Jihong Kim and Heejin Lee

Economic, political, and social factors impeding the regulation of digital platforms

Martha Garcia-Murillo and Ian MacInnes

An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services

Chate Khemakongkanonth

It's just distributed computing: Rethinking AI governance

Milton L. Mueller

Different approaches to Spanish e-government: From use to impact

Covadonga Gijón, Fernando Fernández-Bonilla and Aurora Ruíz-Rúa

Dualistic nature of the 4IR: Investigating the economy-wide impacts of the 4IR with a focus on Korean economy using a CGE analysis

Yeongjun Yeo, Won-Sik Hwang, Kiyoon Shin, Chanyoung Hong, Inha Oh, Sungmoon Jung and Jeong-Dong Lee

Volume 49, issue 2, 2025

Beyond geopolitics: Agency and modularity in mobile telecommunications in Kazakhstan

Oyuna Baldakova and Elisa Oreglia

Perspectives on political influences on changes in telecommunications and internet economy markets

Bronwyn Howell, Fernando Herrera González, Georg Serentschy, Mark Jamison, Petrus Potgieter, Roslyn Layton and Íñigo Herguera García

Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece

Dimitrios Stamopoulos, Petros Dimas, Evangelos Siokas and Aggelos Tsakanikas

Niche analysis of competition among music streaming services in Korea

Saehe Shin and Seongcheol Kim

The impact of FoMO and FoBO on YouTube summary video consumption: A social identity perspective

In-Young Park and Hyung-Min Kim

Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada

Rob McMahon, Murat Akçayır, Brenda Norris and Lyle Fabian

Volume 49, issue 1, 2025

Pacing the digital decade: Digital evolution and its impact on human well-being

Eleni Laitsou, Dimitris Katsianis, Apostolos Xenakis and Vassilis C. Gerogiannis

Tourism usage of digital collaborative economy platforms in Europe: Situation, behaviours, and implications for the digital policies

Adrián Mendieta-Aragón, Laura Rodríguez-Fernández and Julio Navío-Marco

Regulatory and spectrum policy challenges for combined airspace and non-terrestrial networks

Bengt Mölleryd, Mustafa Ozger, Morgan Westring, Anders Nordlöw, Dominic Schupke, Ulrika Engström, Cicek Cavdar, Michael Lindborg and Nunzio Sciammetta

Rethinking poverty: An econometric analysis of the role of ICT poverty in a global context

Angela Stefania Bergantino, Mario Intini and Younes Nademi

Digitalization and country distance in international trade: An empirical analysis of European countries

Thuy Linh Cao and Judy Hsu

Digital connectivity and the SDGs: Conceptualising the link through an institutional resilience lens

Shirin Madon and Silvia Masiero

Bridging the digital divide: Analyzing subsidy allocation efficiency in telecom sector reforms

Abdul Kayum, Md. Shahnawaz Abdin, Brajesh Mishra and Amaan Kayum

Electronic toll collection (ETC) on highways: Global trends, Vietnam's experience, and policy lessons

Khuong Vu