This study analyses the cost of a low-volume basket of mobile services across a sample of
Latin American countries, and contrasts these results with standard income and poverty …

This thesis examines the role of mobile telephony in rural communities in Papua New
Guinea (PNG). It is a threshold study which reports on research conducted in the earliest …

Full participation in the global Internet economy requires electronic connectivity of
considerable complexity. Today, due to a worldwide wave of liberalization and technological …

Full participation in the global Internet Economy requires electronic connectivity of
increasing complexity. Today, due to a wave of liberalisation and technological and …

W ireless digital Internet divide between technologies countries have and the potential
regions that to bridge have well the developed telecommunications infrastructure and those …

What happens to “universal service” commitments when there is a weak institutional
framework and a marked imbalance of power between the regulatory authorities and the …

Purpose–This paper aims to look at a key trend shaking up universal service policy around
the world–the emergence of mobile and wireless technologies as a central feature of …

Poverty reduction has been a key focus of development interventions and development
research. Global levels of poverty have declined in the last decade, but there still remain …

In this policy paper we critically analyze the design and implementation of the subsidy
mechanism for the expansion of rural telephony in India. The main focus of the paper is the …

T his Indian chapter Universal critically Service analyzes Obligation the design (USO) and
implementation program for telecom. of the The purpose is to outline the anomalies of the …