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Electronic toll collection (ETC) on highways: Global trends, Vietnam's experience, and policy lessons 高速公路电子收费（ETC）：全球趋势、越南的经验和政策教训

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102892

Khuong Vu

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Bridging the digital divide: Analyzing subsidy allocation efficiency in telecom sector reforms 弥合数字鸿沟：分析电信部门改革中的补贴分配效率

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Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102880

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

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Digital connectivity and the SDGs: Conceptualising the link through an institutional resilience lens 数字连通性与可持续发展目标：从制度弹性角度概念化两者之间的联系

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102879

Shirin Madon , Silvia Masiero

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Beyond geopolitics: Agency and modularity in mobile telecommunications in Kazakhstan 超越地缘政治：哈萨克斯坦移动通信的代理和模块化

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102878

Oyuna Baldakova, Elisa Oreglia

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Digitalization and country distance in international trade: An empirical analysis of European countries 数字化与国际贸易中的国家距离：基于欧洲国家的实证分析

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102877

Thuy Linh Cao , Judy Hsu

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Willingness to pay for broadband: A case study of Wisconsin 宽带付费意愿：威斯康星州案例研究

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102873

Mckenzie Boyce

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Why do users perceive digital platforms as indispensable to their lives?: A study on KakaoTalk in Korea 为什么用户认为数字平台对其生活不可或缺？韩国 KakaoTalk 研究

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102863

Jaeyoung Park, Seongcheol Kim

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Promoting the adoption of digital technology: Strategic policy insights from a network effects model 促进数字技术的采用：从网络效应模型看战略政策

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102852

Khuong Vu , Ibrahim Kholilul Rohman , Erik Bohlin

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Internet of Things, critical infrastructures, and the governance of cybersecurity in 5G network slicing 物联网、关键基础设施和 5G 网络切片中的网络安全治理

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102867

Günter Knieps

{"title":"Internet of Things, critical infrastructures, and the governance of cybersecurity in 5G network slicing","authors":"Günter Knieps","doi":"10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102867","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the last decade, cybersecurity has become a disruptive challenge driven by the shift to 5G networks. 5G is an application-agnostic general-purpose technology (GPT) characterized by its major role as multidimensional upstream technology for a large and open set of downstream Internet of Things (IoT) applications and use cases in various network industries and, more generally, within the economy as a whole. The focus of this paper is on the network economics of cybersecurity governance, considering the interplay between the recent EU cybersecurity regulatory framework, the extensive standardization efforts of international standardization organizations, and the economic incentives to tackle 5G network performance and security challenges. Based on the economic concept of 5G-based network slicing, the entrepreneurial challenges driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) are analyzed with an eye towards the complementarity between the physical side and virtual side of IoT applications. Network slicing gains particular relevance in the context of different types of logically separated, QoS-differentiated 5G bandwidth capacities, which are combined with other virtual resources such as sensor networks, data storage and processing, together with end-to-end slice security. It is shown in this paper that economic incentives for the implementation of 5G cybersecurity cannot be considered in isolation but must be viewed in combination with other performance requirements of 5G network slices. This is the driver for implementing network slicing architectures within 5G networks that feature a multitude of heterogeneous network slices with different QoS differentiation and various cybersecurity requirements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22290,"journal":{"name":"Telecommunications Policy","volume":"48 10","pages":"Article 102867"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the substitutability of mobile and fixed internet: The impact of 5G services on consumer valuation and price elasticity 评估移动和固定互联网的可替代性：5G 服务对消费者估值和价格弹性的影响

IF 5.9 2区管理学

Telecommunications Policy Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2024.102869

Mikołaj Czajkowski , Wojciech Zawadzki , Grzegorz Bernatek , Maciej Sobolewski

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