Telecommunications Policy

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Volume 50, issue 8, 2026

The evolution of spectrum property regimes: Experiments with disruptive technologies in the U.S

Thomas W. Hazlett

A holistic framework for analyzing spectrum licensing models— illustrated by local licensing for 5G and 6G networks

Arturo Basaure, Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Oxana Gisca, Petri Ahokangas and Seppo Yrjölä

Creator strategies in the platform economy: How frequency, consistency, and content type affect YouTube engagement, attention, and revenue

Eugene Choi, Jaeyoung Park, Sewon Eom, Jinho Park and Seongcheol Kim

Dissecting the cost of peering: Global evidence from internet exchange points (IXPs)

Anirudh Tagat and Amreesh Phokeer

A comparative techno-economic analysis of 5G private network deployment vs RAN slicing for industry verticals

Nikos Ioannou, Dimitris Kokkinis, Dimitris Katsianis and Dimitris Varoutas

Market responses to entry in mobile telecommunications markets: Cross-country evidence

Minhee Kim

Restrictions on municipal broadband provision and mothers’ labor market outcomes: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Jessica Van Parys and Saket Hegde

Balancing privacy and public interest: ethical and legal aspects

Veronika Horielova, Olena Derevianko, Oleksii Yanushevskyi and Maksym Lysak

Broadband shocks, TFP growth and polarisation of European firms

Emilio Colombo, Luca Portoghese and Patrizio Tirelli

Transitioning telecommunications networks to sustainable energy: A techno-economic analysis for solar-powered 5G base stations across Europe

Ioanna Giannikou, Nikos Ioannou and Markos Tselekounis

Human-centric sustainability in organizations: The role of GAI literacy in individual well-being and innovative performance

Jing Zhou, Yaobin Lu and Weimo Li

Impact of technological evolution on the value of spectrum for mobile broadband: Case study of a dense market

Md Sohel Rana

Dynamic spectrum pricing: Congestion, market structure and coordination

Chris Doyle

The exhaustion principle in copyright and modern digital markets

Bronwyn E. Howell and Petrus H. Potgieter

From coverage to permission: Governing starlink and satellite broadband mega-constellations

Tariq Kamal Alhasan

Robots and post-retirement labor supply: Evidence from China

Mengxuan Wu, Weiwei Zheng and Wei Wang

Unpacking the Chinese privacy paradox: Fifty years of privacy perceptions and contemporary empirical evidence in the AI era

Yu-li Liu, Rubing Li, Jiayi Mi, Jiayue Dai and Bo Hu

Digital technologies and sexual behavior outcomes: Evidence on fertility and HIV from developing countries

Louis de Berquin Eyike Mbongo, Paul Omang Ombolo Messono and Alexandre Turpin Iroume A Bouebe

Chinese Parents’ Love: The ICT governance logic behind Chinese video game policies

Zitao Chen, Yuqi Wang and Jing Wang

From connectivity expansion to intelligent ecosystems: The 5G value conversion gap and the transition toward AI-native 6G

Khuong Vu

Institutionalized digital resilience: Controlled openness and cross-layer governance in Malaysia's response to techno-geopolitical rivalry

Qing Lu

The green dividend of digital finance: The impact of mobile money on solar adoption in Kenya

Wenxiu Nan

A comparative and integrative mapping of thematic trajectories, the digital turn, and future research frontiers in telecommunications policy

Menglan Luo, Yong Jiang and Yi-Shuai Ren

Contractual control of real-time data: China's Senpu case and digital infrastructure access policy

Fengliang Jin

Working remotely, unequally: Evidence from a digitally divided labor market

José Wilmar Quintero-Peña

Beyond spectrum coordination: A functional framework under international law for authorising high-altitude platform systems (HAPS) operations

Yuran Shi and Qixuan Wu

Volume 50, issue 7, 2026

Disbanding the Federal Communications Commission?

Mark A. Jamison

Spectrum auctions, protection, or another option?

Charles Baylis, Douglas Sicker, Austin Egbert, Andrew Clegg, Tom Brooks and Robert J. Marks

Enhancing AI literacy for inclusive digital economies and societies: Policies and challenges in addressing the AI divide

Youngsun Kwon, Yu-li Liu and Erik Bohlin

Regulatory maturity and market performance in the global OTT video landscape: A two-stage composite indicator analysis

Athanasios Papathanasopoulos and Dimitris Varoutas

The centrifugal effects of digital technologies on knowledge generation: Internet penetration and small firms’ innovation

Cristiano Antonelli and Guido Pialli

Telecommunications policy agenda in the digital age: An analysis of Telecommunications Policy publications in the 21st century

Jinyong Zheng and Ping Gao

Engineering the digital technology sphere: China's new technology diplomacy and telecom ecosystem niche construction

Yujun Lin, Yuqi Lin, Ling Qiu, Yiming Liu, Ruoquan Li and Jiayi Xu

Rural connectivity inequalities in Finland and Sweden: Evidence, measures, and policy reflections

Sameera Bandaranayake, Amirreza Moradi, Tanja Suomalainen, Harri Saarnisaari, Pasi Karppinen, Payal Gupta and Jaap van de Beek

Security governance in UK telecoms: Reverse salience, path dependency and the paradox of stability vs innovation

Liam John Mcphee and Sajjad Bagheri Baba Ahmadi

Improving broadband subsidy allocation: Algorithmic and policy insights from Israel

Erez Eliyahu and Zvika Neeman

Telcos and Big Tech: Value creation or destruction?

Said-Nour Samaké

Consumer evaluation of digital product passport information: Evidence from a conjoint analysis in Japan

Ornicha Boonpanya, Hitoshi Mitomo and Tokio Otsuka

Assessing the 6G readiness across the European Union: A multi-criteria decision-making approach under incomplete information

Dimitris Kokkinis, Georgios P. Trachanas, Nikos Ioannou, Dimitris Katsianis and Dimitris Varoutas

Environmental and social performance, digital readiness, and export growth in emerging ASEAN economies

Wanli Zhang, Daniel Tawiah, Michael Provide Fumey, Simplice Asongu and Abdul-Ganiu Adam

Volume 50, issue 6, 2026

Empowering civic engagement in AI governance: A two-wave panel study on AI literacy and participatory governance of generative AI in China

Zhi Lin, Qianyi Jin and Jianfeng Lan

The impact of platform-level privacy policies on users’ privacy concerns: Evidence from Apple App Tracking Transparency via a dynamic difference-in-difference analysis

Sangjun Nam and Youngsun Kwon

Universal service and structural reforms in Latin America: What have we learned and where are we going?

Roxana Barrantes Cáceres

Anticipatory governance of digital platforms: An analysis based on the UK's online safety act

Lin Huang and Guihua Li

Digital infrastructure and industrial integration: An assessment of the coupling coordination effect between digital and real economy in China

Weiwei Li, Wenlong Cui and Pingtao Yi

OrbitShare: The policy imperative for satellite internet mega-constellation sharing

Anupa De Silva and Nima Afraz

Orbital congestion and satellite broadband competition: Oligopoly, innovation, and second-best regulation

Chris Doyle

Corrigendum to “Impact assessment of broadband transport and internet access projects in Peru” [JTPO_103149 Telecommunications Policy Volume 50, Issue 3, April 2026, 103149]

José Luis Bonifaz and Julio Aguirre

Between regulation and innovation: Stakeholder interests in the governance of the financial MyData ecosystem in South Korea

Hanbyul Choi, Yongbok Cho, Hyeonung Jang and Min Ho Ryu

Wireless communications equipment markets:Evolution, classification, and measurement

Noah Greenstein, Roberto Fontana, Shane Greenstein, Ruby Zhang, Haiyang Zhang, Omar Olivarez and Do Yoon Kim

New reality of public service media journalists: How generative AI redefines journalism and work practices

Vaclav Moravec, Beata Gavurova and Martin Rigelsky

A framework to incentivise green networks and infrastructure in the 6G mobile ecosystem

Santiago Andrés Azcoitia, Sergio Illescas Cabiró and Zoraida Frías

Enabling the EU's digital Sovereignty: A Europe-level quantum internet as the key infrastructure for a European digital polity

Stefano Calzati, Anastasija Nikiforova and Martino Travagnin

Algorithmic governance and the new face of exclusion: A digital structural violence framework for critiquing techno-solutionist social policies

Isnaini Muallidin

How regime types shape internet governance effectiveness in cybersecurity: A cross-country study

Jiwei Qian and Jingguo Wang

How artificial intelligence penetration affects workers’ job quality? Empirical evidence from China

Yafeng Nie and Kaiyun Xue

Volume 50, issue 5, 2026

Place matters for the poor: Digitisation and spatial inequality in Chile

Pedro Fierro, Ellen J. Helsper, Teresa Correa and Matías Dodel

Benchmarking internet Progress: Longitudinal analysis of the FCC's measuring broadband America data, 2011–2023

David P. Reed, Jason Schnitzer and Dhanavikram Sekar

From procedures to peril: Towards risk transparency in information privacy for users

Nico Ebert, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Soheil Human, Agnieszka Kitkowska, Konrad Kollnig, Jelena Mitrović, Shidong Pan, Thierry Schaltegger, Florian Schaub, Daniel Smullen and Lu Xian

Using choice experiments to value mobile device features: Evidence from screenshot capture

Scott J. Savage

How Korean platform startups survive in the era of platform dominance: A dynamic capabilities theory approach

Min Hyeok Kang and Seongcheol Kim

Multi-stakeholder game dynamics in copyright governance of China's short video: A stakeholder theory perspective

Shuhuan Zhou and Yuqiao Cao

Mobile or not mobile: That is the question for refarming of the 4 GHz band

Arturas Medeisis and William Webb

The role of broadband speed availability in business survival and employment

Christina Biedny, Brian Whitacre, John Pender and Dayton Lambert

When defines where: how rural digital divide, customers’ mobility and usage patterns have shaped mobile infrastructures

María Teresa Herrero-Zamorano, Julio Navío-Marco, María Bujidos-Casado and Adrián Mendieta-Aragón

Revisiting the digital divide in Europe — The profile of those on the wrong side of the divide

José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Raquel Marbán-Flores, Ainara Rodríguez-Sánchez and Cristina Miragaya-Casillas

Regulating increasingly digitalised networks and services

Martin Cave

Volume 50, issue 4, 2026

The effect of ICT on tax revenue mobilization: A global perspective

Aristophane Djeufack Dongmo, Eric Xaverie Possi Tebeng, Jose Claude Mokompea Nyamou and Simplice Asongu

Self-reported AI literacy and gendered self-efficacy: Evidence from Chinese adolescents

Li Tian, Wanyu Wu, Ya Tan and Shilan Feng

Intangible assets and economic well-being: Evidence from state-level data on R&D, human capital, and ICT

P.M. Rao and H.D. Vinod

Editorial: Papers from a recent European conference of the International Telecommunications Society

Covadonga Gijón, Aurora Ruíz Rua, Volker Stocker and Jason Whalley

Beyond price and money: From early insights to contemporary theorizing of non-price competition and non-monetary exchange in Internet markets

Natascha Just

Governing deepfake realities: The truth immunity framework for telecommunications policy

Bei Zhang

The commercial space marketplace in flux

Rob Frieden

Volume 50, issue 3, 2026

“In the end, Bell always wins …” A critical analysis of concentration in Toronto's fibre-internet service market

Michel Mersereau

Privacy and cybersecurity issues facing the metaverse: An analysis of technological and institutional factors

Nir Kshetri

The effects of banning permanence clauses in mobile phone markets

Renzo Clavijo

Comparing AI literacy policies in the European Union, the United States, India, and China

Haoyu Yang, Jinghong Xu, Xianquan Zeng and Xinyang Gu

Divide or Bridge: How does broadband infrastructure reshape the sense of safety among the elderly?

Xiaoheng Wu, Cunyang Yu and Jiayao Xu

Spectrum governance and 5G market structure: Malaysia's transition to a dual network model

Muhammad Nur Thoriqah Wahbi and Noorihsan Mohamad

Too good to be true? China's new conceptual scheme for data property rights

Jingjing Li, Limei Gao and Jiayou Shi

Communication Technology advancement and political outcomes in the developing world: Evidence from 4G proliferation in Indonesia

Najwa Khairina, Rus'an Nasrudin and Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro

Governing data through privacy after China's PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies

Yiming Chen, Liming Liu and Jinpei Deng

Mobile financial services: paying with my palm – as simple as that!

Philip Avornyo, Lin Xiao, Christian Narh Opata and Selasie Avornyo

Impact assessment of broadband transport and internet access projects in Peru

Jose L. Bonifaz and Julio Aguirre

Digitalization and firm resilience: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia

Kebede Bekele, Dick Durevall and Gebeyehu M. Fetene

Volume 50, issue 2, 2026

Multihoming strategies in e-commerce: An exploratory study of seller characteristics, marketing resources, and business performance

Kyu Tae Kwak, DongA Jeong, Semin Hong and Sang Woo Lee

Internet use, gender role attitudes, and female labor market outcomes in rural China

Nanyan Hu, Yonghao Hu, Jinqian Zhai and Laping Wu

Governing AI virtual anchors in China’s live streaming E-commerce ecosystem: Policy challenges and global implications

Yuxi Meng

Analyzing the dynamics of the SVOD market in the EU-27: Factors influencing user subscriptions and revenue growth

Athanasios Papathanasopoulos and Dimitris Varoutas

Efficiency and effectiveness of net neutrality rules in the mobile sector: Relevant developments and state of the empirical literature

Wolfgang Briglauer and Christopher Yoo

The behavioral impact of 5G adoption: Evidence from individual-level transaction data

Joseph Lee, Jae-Hyeon Ahn and Jaeho Myeong

Broadband deployment and access to online banking: Does improved technology facilitate adoption?

Joan Calzada and Alejandra Pablo

Strategic technology competition revisited: A National Innovation System rationale for China's artificial intelligence standardisation strategy

Junhua Zhu, Elina Sinkkonen and Mikael Mattlin

Digitalization, AI and the rise of techno-religion: Transhumanist promises and the challenge to Enlightenment

Michael Latzer

The FM radio switch-off and the need for sustainable and inclusive digital radio policy

Tom Evens

Generative AI literacy: Scale development and its influence on privacy protection behaviors and information verification behaviors

Wenjia Yan, Yu-li Liu, Valeriia Mamaeva, Fang Dong, Guannan Tao, Rubing Li and Heng Yang

Network infrastructure and corporate development: A dual perspective on corporate social responsibility performance and productivity performance

Yuhong Huang and Mudan Lan

Estimating the impact of Value Added Tax exemptions on smartphone penetration in Colombia using the synthetic control method

Sindhura Kammardi Sachidananda, Leon Tinashe Gwaka and Christopher S. Yoo

Artificial intelligence in the music streaming value chain: Exploring artists' and users’ perceptions on content creation and algorithmic consumption

Alberto Arenal, Juan Miguel Aguado, Cristina Armuña, Sergio Ramos and Claudio Feijoo

Does AI boost firm productivity? A web scraping and LLMs approach

Ana Pastor-Merino, Xavier Martínez-Barbero, María R. Vicente and Josep Domenech

Volume 50, issue 1, 2026

Factors influencing the export of cultural and artistic copyright in the Korean media industry

Chaeyun Jang and Seongcheol Kim

Triple Helix Synergy Model in China's new technology diplomacy: Perspectives from AI startups

Yujun Lin, Yuqi Lin, Junbo Liu, Zhaoyang Tan and Weihang Han

Digital technology adoption and firm performance: Evidence from Finland ’s service sector using linked microdata

Natalia Kuosmanen, Mika Pajarinen and Almas Heshmati

ICT payoffs for workers: Evidence from the labor market in Brazil

Flavia Alves

Activating the principle of ‘taking into account the special needs of the developing countries’ in the distribution of low Earth orbit frequency/orbit resources

Jinxuan Li and Jinyuan Su

The challenge of generative artificial intelligence for future communication professionals: Experiences and usability

Sonia Blanco, María Sánchez González, Francisco Marcos Martín-Martín and Hada M. Sánchez Gonzales

ICT development and income Inequality: The moderating role of the entrepreneurial environment

Ming-Hsuan Lee, Clarence Yu and Ching-Hsin Kao

Small firms, big streams: How the characteristics of SMEs impact live streaming commerce performance

Jaunghyun Hwang, Donggeun Kim, Alex Jiyoung Kim and Junghwan Kim

Breaking the cycle: Can information and communication technologies reverse the trend of premature deindustrialization in Africa?

Min-Dong Zhu, Mounira Raddaoui and Younchawou Ngouwouo

Big data, small answers: How the DSA Transparency Database falls short of its regulatory objectives

Samuel Groesch, Alena Birrer, Natascha Just and Florian Saurwein

Digital transformation demands new policies and strategies: Editorial for special issue on the ITS 2024 Seoul Conference

Seongcheol Kim, Youngsun Kwon and Yoonhyuk Jung

Digital transformation demands new policies and strategies: Editorial for special issue on ITS 2024 Seoul Conference

Seongcheol Kim, Youngsun Kwon and Yoonhyuk Jung

Unlocking trade locks in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) in Africa: The role of digital infrastructure

Joshua Afolabi and Basiru Oyeniran Fatai

Impacts of the USDA broadband initiatives program on employment and telework: Evidence from confidential American community survey microdata

Anil Rupasingha, John Pender and Robert Dinterman

A scaling law for two-sided networks? Empirical evidence for a mobile payment scheme

Leo Van Hove, Radosław Kotkowski and Michal Polasik

AI literacy for safe deployment: Cross-national evidence on the interaction between talent and governance

Jeong-Ah Park, Chang Hyun Kim and Hye-Jin Kim