Telecommunications Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Telecommunications Policy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Analysis of spectrum pricing for commercial mobile services: A cross country study159
Editorial Board155
Willingness to pay and pricing for broadband across the rural/urban divide in Canada149
How offline retailers adopt O2O: Neighboring star shops and their proximity effect131
The tax burden on mobile network operators in Africa130
Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy128
Building an ecosystem for mobile broadband measurement: Methods and policy challenges104
Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices88
Qualitative analysis of structural holes in emerging media industries: Evidence from Taiwan’s Over-The-Top Industry71
Cloud computing and rural globalization: Evidence for the U.S. nonfarm economy67
Into the next generation of digital protection: AI resiliency as a public responsibility66
Mobile network operators’ business risks in next-generation public safety services65
Developing a conceptual framework for digital platform literacy61
Juggling ecumenical wisdoms and xenophobic institutions: Framing and modelling China's telecommunications universal service and rural digitalization initiatives and policies61
Exploring killer domains to create new value: A comparative case study of Canadian and Korean telcos60
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Greening the telecommunications industry – Consumer preferences and surcharges for environmental attributes of mobile phone plans60
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How is mobile broadband intensity affecting CO2 emissions? – A macro analysis56
A study on Metaverse risk factors and user risk perception in South Korea56
The ICT growth puzzle: Disentangling the role of individuals, firms, and governments across digitalization stages56
Concentration of the mobile telecommunications markets and countries’ competitiveness56
Two paths of balancing technology and ethics: A comparative study on AI governance in China and Germany54
The advent of 5G and the non-discrimination principle53
Understandings of the AI business ecosystem in South Korea: AI startups’ perspective53
Exploring the role of data enclosure in the digital political economy51
A two-sided model of paid peering51
Competition reform and household welfare: A microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia50
Developing information and communication technology with the belt and road initiative and the digital silk road49
A new digital era: Challenges and opportunities for Thai women in online marketplace48
Analysis of the evolution characteristics of international ICT services trade based on complex network48
Editorial Board46
Total factor productivity enablers in the ICT industry: A cross-country firm-level analysis45
Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic44
Exploring the structural effects of the ICT sector in the Greek economy: A quantitative approach based on input-output and network analysis43
Explaining geospatial variation in mobile phone ownership among rural women of Bangladesh: A multi-level and multidimensional approach43
Digital dividends? Rural E-commerce policy and urban-rural income disparity in China42
The effect of the digital economy on services exports competitiveness and ternary margins40
The future of 5G and beyond: Leadership, deployment and European policies40
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Editorial: Economic, social and political impacts of blockchain36
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe36
Lesser evil? Public opinion on regulating fake news in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand – A three-country comparison36
Do subscribers of mobile networks care about Data Throttling?35
The growing impact of ICT productivity via the cost of capital: Evidence from the U.S. and Japan35
Uncovering the impact of IP location display on user behavior in China's social platforms: A policy-driven analysis34
The digital divide between high school students in Colombia33
Unravelling digital divides in the Emilia-Romagna region through the poset approach32
Impact of data trade restrictions on IT services export: A cross-country analysis31
Multi-perspective approach for developing sustainable 6G mobile communications31
Does ICTs decrease the spread of informal economy in Africa?30
Harnessing digital technologies for poverty reduction. Evidence for low-income and lower-middle income countries29
Tech diplomacy and Critical Technologies: Case of the LEO satellite internet29
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Does ICT create a new driving force for manufacturing?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms29
Can digital literacy improve income mobility? Evidence from China27
Does social media improve women's political empowerment in Africa?27
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A centrality analysis of the Lightning Network26
AI narratives and unequal conditions. Analyzing the discourse of liminal expert voices in discursive communicative spaces26
The Brussels Effect in Brazil: Analysing the impact of the EU digital services act on the discussion surrounding the fake news bill25
Infrastructure sharing reduces the energy, emissions and costs of universal mobile 4G and 5G broadband25
Planned obsolescence and smartphone replacement: Empirical evidence on the Italian market25
Using spectrum set-asides to address distributional objectives: Lessons from Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States24
The influence of digital divide frames on legislative passage and partisan sponsorship: A content analysis of digital equity legislation in the U.S. from 1990 to 202024
Multivariate and geospatial analysis of technology utilization in US counties24
Do digital platform's unethical behaviors influence users' trust and intention to use alternative platforms?24
The evolution of the digital economy: Comparative insights from China and the United States, 1995–202023
Digitalization and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic23
Transforming cybersecurity with agentic AI to combat emerging cyber threats22
Privacy in AI and the IoT: The privacy concerns of smart speaker users and the Personal Information Protection Law in China22
Evolved spectrum usage rights: A catalyst for liberal spectrum management reform21
Legitimacy considerations in regulation for local mobile communication network business in Finland and the UK21
Kids content as IPTV operator's new differentiator: The Korean case21
The COVID-19 pandemic and deepening digital inequalities in China20
Examining the US amateur-radio community through a polycentricity lens20
Crisis-ready telecom: Global approaches to emergency management in telecommunications20
Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on broadband adoption and home telework19
Technology empowerment: A path to poverty alleviation for Chinese women from the perspective of development communication19
What would it cost to connect the unconnected? Estimating global universal broadband infrastructure investment19
Conversations with fellow leaders: Privacy framing in congressional hearings after Cambridge Analytica18
Voices from Northern Canada: Integrating stakeholder expectations in telecommunications policy for rural, remote and Northern regions18
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Working from home, job tasks, and productivity17
The rise of 5G technologies and systems: A quantitative analysis of knowledge production17
Environmental sustainability in the OECD: The power of digitalization, green innovation, renewable energy and financial development17
From vulnerabilities to resilience: Taiwan's semiconductor industry and geopolitical challenges17
Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus17
Scoping new policy frameworks for local and community broadband networks17
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Is digitalization a booster for economic growth in Africa? Short run and long run evidence from Tanzania16
An old familiar song? Assessing the artificial intelligence divide among the regions of the European Union and its connections with digital divides16
A study on forward and backward linkage effects in South Korea's telecom industry across generations16
Digital technologies and financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa15
Editorial Board15
An empirical analysis on relationships between over-the-top applications for communication and traditional mobile voice services15
Understanding the evolution of China's standardization policy system15
Do ICTs drive wealth inequality? Evidence from a dynamic panel analysis15
Editorial: Digital societies and industrial transformations: ITS 23rd Biennial Conference15
A deep dive into the birth process of linking 6G and the UN SDGs15
What drives broadband traffic?15
Exploring the contributors to the digital economy: Insights from Vietnam with comparisons to Thailand15
How do standards committees affect the success of a standard? Comparative analysis of RCS and VoLTE and proposed hybrid standards development model of open and bandwagon approaches15
Customer churn prediction for fixed wireless access: The case of a regional internet service provider15
Assessing the European association between digitalization and innovation15
OTT and live streaming services: Past, present, and future14
Development of 5G – Identifying organizations active in publishing, patenting, and standardization14
Exacerbating the divide? Investigating rural inequalities in high speed broadband availability14
COVID-19 and changes in content usage behavior: The case of South Korea14
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Reviewing wireless broadband technologies in the peak smartphone era: 6G versus Wi-Fi 7 and 813
The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition13
Compartmental market models in the digital economy—extension of the Bass model to complex economic systems13
The “Netflix effect” revisited: OTT video, media globalization and digital sovereignty in 4 countries13
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Determining spectrum caps and service efficiency: A case study of mobile operators in Thailand13
Economic, political, and social factors impeding the regulation of digital platforms13
Urbanization and sustainable development for inclusiveness using ICTs13
Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model13
Economic growth and broadband access: The European urban-rural digital divide13
Same goal, different paths: Contrasting approaches to AI regulation in China and India13
New challenges in Internet governance: Power shifts and contestation from “within”12
Regulation and innovation in 5G markets12
Internet price, speed, and disparity: The case of rural healthcare providers in the United States12
App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses12
How does the urban digital economy affect labor mobility? An analysis from inflow and outflow perspectives12
From entrepreneur to social sharer: Entrepreneurship and digital social sharing12
Digital discrimination under disparate impact: A legal and economic analysis12
5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries12
Impact of mobile money on the economic empowerment of women in Benin12
Sourcing behavior and the role of news media in AI-powered search engines in the digital media ecosystem: Comparing political news retrieval across five languages12
Editorial Board11
Tourism usage of digital collaborative economy platforms in Europe: Situation, behaviours, and implications for the digital policies11
Telecommunications and Space Debris: Adaptive Regulation Beyond Earth11
Standard essential patents and global ICT value chains with a focus on the catching-up of China11
Establishment of mobile money corridors and Burkina Faso's intra-WAEMU trade11
Technological change, completeness of financing microstructures, and impact on well-being and income inequality11
Spatial econometric analysis of the digital divide in Thailand at the sub-district level: Patterns and determinants11
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Efficiency frontier of OECD MNOs: Multinational vs Domestic11
The role of blockchain for trade in global value chains: A systematic literature review and guidance for future research11
Valuing the virtual: The impact of fiber to the home on property prices in France10
Building resilience in telecommunications: Towards a research agenda - Editorial10
The academic industry’s response to generative artificial intelligence: An institutional analysis of large language models10
Advertising in streaming video: An integrative literature review and research agenda10
Editorial Board10
Assessment of E-government inclusion policies toward seniors: A framework and case study10
Promotion of high-capacity broadband in the face of increasing global stress10
Restraining ICANN: An analysis of OFAC sanctions and their impact on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers10
Who do you think you are? Individual stakeholder identification and mobility at the Internet Governance Forum9
Assessing the effectiveness of OTT services, branded apps, and gamified loyalty giveaways on mobile customer churn in the telecom industry: A machine-learning approach9
The age-based digital divides in China: Trends and socioeconomic differentials (2010–2020)9
An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance9
The impact of spectrum set-asides on private and public mobile networks9
Internet access and its role on educational inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic9
A preview of the broadband fabric: Opportunities and issues for researchers and policymakers9
Determinants of FTTH tariffs evolution in EU: A panel data analysis9
The effect of gender inequality in internet access on energy poverty: A preliminary investigation in developing countries9
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Expertise and Participation in the Facebook Oversight Board: From Reason to Will9
Shifting digital priorities for the SDGs: A global analysis on economic and geographic scales9
Blockchain for sustainability: A systematic literature review for policy impact9
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Digital infrastructure empowerment and urban carbon emissions: Evidence from China8
The moral hazard of Lax FCC land use oversight for advanced network infrastructure8
Why do users perceive digital platforms as indispensable to their lives?: A study on KakaoTalk in Korea8
Experimenting in the cloud: The digital divide's impact on innovation8
Convergence and determinants of ICT development in case of emerging market economies8
Factors driving mobile network operator profitability in public safety mobile broadband projects8
Digital economy and settlement intention of migrants in urban China8
Explaining public preferences for regulating Artificial Intelligence in election campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan8
The impact of mobile virtual network operators on the mobile telecommunications services market: The case of the Czech Republic8
Factors affecting users' satisfaction and dissatisfaction of OTT services in South Korea7
China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain7
An assessment of the liberalization and the evolution of competition in the Moroccan mobile market7
The multidimensional effect of financial development on trade in Africa: The role of the digital economy7
A combinatorial auction to sell TV broadcasting rights in league sports7
Is your netflix a substitute for your telefunken? Evidence on the dynamics of traditional pay TV and OTT in Latin America7
The efficiency analysis of media companies: An application of DEA and Malmquist indices7
The role of mobile network operators in next-generation public safety services7
Blockchain as a cutting-edge technology impacting business: A systematic literature review perspective7
Understanding uptake in demand-side broadband subsidy programs: The affordable connectivity program case7
Is pay-or-consent for privacy justifiable? Evidence from different users' privacy attitudes toward behavioral data collection in South Korea7
A systematic review of mobile payment literature: What has been studied and what should be studied?7
Estimating private costs in a descending clock auction: The FCC’s rural digital opportunity fund7
A question of strategic legislation: Can the EU deal with cybersecurity issues in space?7
Competitive effects of mergers and of spectrum divestment remedies in mobile telecommunication markets7
Regional mapping of ICT specialization and adoption of industry 4.0 technologies in Greece6
Coopetition, standardization and general purpose technologies: A framework and an application6
Mobile phones and economic gender inequality: A panel study of 104 countries from 2014 to 20226
Toward an integrated framework for developing European 6G innovation6
Urban wireless traffic evolution: The role of new devices and the effect of policy6
Need for speed: Fiber and student achievement6
Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement6
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Digitalization and economic growth in the MENA region: Evidence from panel data analysis6
Determinants of internet use by school-age children: The challenges for Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Reciprocity or conflict? The impact of dual-policy of broadband China and low-carbon city on firms’ green technology innovation6
Exploring fans’ participation in digital media: Transcreation of webtoons6
Why do Korean users intend to subscribe to global OTT service through their local IPTV service?6
Assessing the economy-wide impacts of digital transformation in the Korean economy: A social accounting matrix multiplier approach6
Assessing the impacts of low-earth orbital satellite systems in remote indigenous communities: Social and economic outcomes of use in northern Canada6
On the verge of a digital divide in the use of generative AI?5
Untangling the paradox of Licensed Shared Access: Need for regulatory refocus5
The integrated sphere of coopetition of digital services and the regulatory approach of diagonal equity5
Learning from the neighbors: The diffusion of state broadband policies in the United States5
The role of Video on Demand in stimulating broadband adoption5
Private participation in government-led backbone network projects: Lessons from three Latin American experiments5
China 5G: Opportunities and Challenges5
Leveraging university research within the context of open innovation: The case of Huawei5
Special issue editorial “The impact of modern broadband networks on Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions”5
Analysing the C-Band spectrum auctions for 5G in Europe: Achieving efficiency and fair decisions in radio spectrum management5
What $2.5 billion can buy: The effect of the Broadband Initiatives Program on farm productivity5
How does artificial intelligence enhance corporate participation in global value chains? Evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies5
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Sustainability of mobile IT sector in industrially developing countries by supporting repairability5
Declared essential patents and average total R&D expenditures per patent family4
Niche analysis of competition among music streaming services in Korea4
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The European Commission's approach to mergers involving software-based platforms: Towards a better understanding of platform power4
The effect of asymmetric regulation on mobile phone market competition: The case of mexico's 2013 telecommunications reform4
Systematic analysis of the blockchain in the energy sector: Trends, issues, and future directions4
Using spectrum allocations to address indigenous rights claims: The case of New Zealand4
Mobile payment and rural household consumption: Evidence from China4
Analysis of cybersecurity competencies: Recommendations for telecommunications policy4
Bridging the digital divide: Analyzing subsidy allocation efficiency in telecom sector reforms4
Leveraging digital technology for development: Does ICT contribute to poverty reduction?4
Does affordable Internet promote maternal and child healthcare access? Evidence from a post-telecommunication market disruption period in India4
Internet of things and the economics of 5G-based local industrial networks4
Network slicing and net neutrality4
It's just distributed computing: Rethinking AI governance4
Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families4
Female participation in African labor markets: The role of information and communication technologies4
Consumer-driven design and evaluation of broadband labels4
Municipal fiber in the United States: A financial assessment4
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Lifting a regulatory millstone around 5G investors’ neck – 5G network slicing versus EU-net neutrality?4
Generative artificial intelligence in advertising. Field applications in Rio de Janeiro and Catalonia4
What do we know about duopolies? Insights from the history of cellular phones4
Is Netflix a threat to the cable TV industry? Evidence from Brazil4
ICT, governance and inequality in Africa4
Participation of developing countries in global value chains: What role for information and communication technologies?4
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