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{"title":"Post-Snowden Internet Policy: Between Public Outrage, Resistance and Policy Change","authors":"Julia Pohle, Leo Van Audenhove","doi":"10.17645/MAC.V5I1.932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17645/MAC.V5I1.932","url":null,"abstract":"This editors’ introduction provides a short summary of the Snowden revelations and the paradoxical political and public responses to them. It further provides an overview of the current academic debate triggered by the Snowden case and the documents leaked by him and introduces the articles featured in this issue on post-Snowden Internet policy.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114749968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Tutorial on the Hata and ITM Propagation Models: Confidence, Reliability, and Clutter with Application to Interference Analysis","authors":"S. Tonkin","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2880916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2880916","url":null,"abstract":"This paper has two main parts: (1) a primer on confidence and reliability in the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM); (2) a description of urban and suburban clutter in the Extended Hata model and in ITM. Recent interference analyses are used to illustrate the discussions. The goal is to clarify the appropriate use of the two models in this area.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124578905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Economic Impact of Removing GEO-Blocking Restrictions in the EU Digital Single Market","authors":"Néstor Duch-Brown, B. Martens","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2783647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2783647","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the welfare impact of lifting geo-blocking restrictions to cross-border e-commerce in the EU, using a dataset for consumer electronics products in ten European countries for the period 2012-2105. We simulated two counterfactual scenarios where geo-blocking is either fully or only indirectly removed. This would allow consumers to arbitrage, taking advantage of price differences, and to expand product variety through imports. We computed the welfare effects, as changes in both consumer and producer surpluses. Finally, we extrapolated these partial results to all online sales in the EU28. The results indicate that both consumers and producers would gain from removing geo-blocking restrictions. Smaller countries would benefit comparatively more than larger countries.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122599516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Short Note on Telecommunications Issues Related to Brexit","authors":"E. Sutherland","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2766077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2766077","url":null,"abstract":"Brexit, the United Kingdom (UK) leaving the European Union (EU), is the subject of a referendum in June 2016. A vote to leave would result in the government invoking Article 50 TEU, which would begin a two-year period of negotiation for a withdrawal agreement, after which the EU treaties would no longer apply. The unpopular ‘Norway Option’ would result in signing the European Economic Area (EEA) Treaty, which would re-impose most of the obligations and costs of EU membership. Otherwise, there would be considerable freedom for the government to develop new policies and legislation, subject to whatever trade agreements it could reach with other countries.The effects for telecommunications markets, legislation and policies are potentially considerable, but depend on how the United Kingdom government acts with the freedom that follows from no longer being bound by the EU acquis. While it might be innovative, it is unclear how or in what direction that might take its policies. Indeed it is not immediately obvious in which direction the benefits might lie.Withdrawal creates a number of legislative holes, with innumerable references to EU institutions and to its objectives (e.g., completion of the single market), which would need to be filled. Some legislation (e.g., state aid rules and the markets subject to ex ante regulation) exist only the EU acquis, which disappears with Brexit, potentially requiring ‘transposition’ into domestic law. While ministers have promised that rates for international mobile roaming would not rise in the event of Brexit, operators would almost certainly lose access to the regulated wholesale rates in the remaining member states. Indeed, there would be strong commercial incentives on both sides to raise wholesale rates for those roaming in the EU and in the European Union. While the operators might try to negotiate alternative deals, there are no precedents for success and precious few for governments in the European periphery.The repatriation of policy-making and legislative scrutiny from the EU institutions would require ‘beefing up’ of governmental and parliamentary capabilities. It would also require a much deeper engagement with business and consumer groups, not least to counter the special pleading of the operators, which have considerable expertise and experience in lobbying. Additionally, it would be important to boost the provision of independent views, both from academic researchers and think tanks. Without a rich debate on policies for telecommunications, the potential benefits of Brexit would be lost, with the greatest risk being in a mishandled transition.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116739954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflections on the Concept of Open Data","authors":"E. Dove","doi":"10.2966/SCRIPT.120215.154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2966/SCRIPT.120215.154","url":null,"abstract":"Though “open data” is much discussed as a practice, it is much less discussed as a concept. There is consensus that open data is an emerging global social movement — an Open Data Movement — that encourages a shift in behaviour about performing data-centric tasks, such as governing or researching, to make them more connected and collaborative and thereby improve transparency, accountability, research discovery, knowledge access and knowledge co-production. But just what do we mean by the qualifying word “open”? Open data is understood to mean data resources that are: (1) free for people to access; (2) free from most legal constraints on reuse; and (3) put into formats that maximise interoperability and linkage. This definition, however, fails to fully address all the conceptual and policy issues at play in the Open Data Movement. In this analysis piece, I offer some critical reflections on the Open Data Movement and unpack the meaning of “open” data so as to offer a richer understanding of the concept.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131440803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regulatory Effectiveness: Namibia's Communications Regulatory Framework","authors":"Stanley Shanapinda","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2961892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2961892","url":null,"abstract":"Communications regulatory frameworks are established to achieve regulatory objectives such as affordable pricing, universal ICT access and usage, and competition. These objectives may however not be met. \u0000In this paper however, we present the regulatory outcomes of Namibia’s communications regulatory framework. We studied the performance of the two dominant and publicly owned telecommunications corporations. We assessed how the national institutional endowment in relation to the regulatory governance and regulatory incentives, such as benchmarking, influenced the performance of the telecommunications sector. We use this analysis to explain the effectiveness of the regulatory framework in achieving the regulatory purpose. \u0000One of the major findings of the study was that the roles of the Minister of ICT, as policy maker and as shareholder representative over the dominant public operator Telecom Namibia Limited (TN) are in conflict. There is a concentration of the telecommunications market, with the exit of the only privately owned mobile cellular operator. A paradigm shift in policy is therefore required to address the poor performance of Namibia’s communications regulatory framework to be able to achieve the regulatory purpose.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121927219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unbundling the Incumbent: Evidence from UK Broadband","authors":"Mattia Nardotto, T. Valletti, F. Verboven","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2505035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2505035","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the impact of a regulatory process forcing an incumbent telecom operator to make its local broadband network available to other companies (local loop unbundling, or LLU). Entrants are then able to upgrade their individual lines and offer Internet services directly to customers. Employing a very detailed data set covering the whole of the United Kingdom, we find that, over the course of time, many entrants have begun to take advantage of unbundling. LLU entry only had a positive effect on broadband penetration in the early years, and no longer in the recent years as the market reached maturity. In contrast, LLU entry continues to have a positive impact on the quality of the service provided, as entrants differentiate their products upwards compared to the incumbent. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive impact on both penetration and quality.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"2011 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114915239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What are the Bounds of the FCC's Authority Over Broadband Service Providers? A Review of the Recent Case Law","authors":"Lawrence J. Spiwak","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2466499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2466499","url":null,"abstract":"When the Internet was in its nascency, the Federal Communications Commission rejected calls to impose traditional \"common carrier\" regulation designed for a monopoly telephone world. Instead, the agency classified broadband Internet access as an \"information service\" under Title I of the Communications Act, and this light touch approach is widely credited with the rapid pace of deployment, adoption, and innovation consumers enjoy today in the broadband ecosystem. With the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to move forward with the IP Transition and with its new attempt to draft legally-sustainable Open Internet Rules, some now argue that the current legal regime fails to provide the Commission with sufficient oversight authority and, as such, the Commission should reclassify broadband Internet access as a Title II common carrier \"telecommunications\" service. In an effort to provide some illumination to this important topic, in this Bulletin I review three recent cases from the D.C. Circuit — Comcast v. FCC, Cellco Partnership v. FCC and Verizon v. FCC — to evaluate the current state of the law. These cases indicate that the Federal Communications Commission has ample legal authority over Broadband Service Providers under the current legal regime and, as such, reclassification of broadband Internet access as a Title II telecommunications service is unwarranted.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126741763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Applying Pablo Fernandez Model of Created Shareholder Value in the Egyptian Market: A Case Study of Telecommunications Industry 2008-2012","authors":"A. Radwan","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2356569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2356569","url":null,"abstract":"This Research discusses the concept of valuation and its different roles and corporate valuation and its different techniques, also this research discusses two techniques of equity valuation which are book value of equity and market value of equity. To measure created value for shareholder has been the issue of study all over the world. It became a crucial issue since the firms were increasingly committed to create shareholder value. In this research, we will present a definition and analysis for shareholder value creation as compared to equity valuation methods such as book value of equity and market value of equity. In order to understand this concept well, we will apply the “Created Shareholder Value” model proposed by Pablo Fernandez on the telecommunications sector in the Egyptian market through a case study of listed companies, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) and Telecom Egypt (TE) from 2008 to 2012. To measure the value created for shareholders, we have to define the “increase of equity market value”, “the shareholder value added”, “the shareholder return” and “the equity required return”. It is important not to mix up the created shareholder value with any of the other concepts mentioned before. All of those concepts will be discussed and analyzed in this paper. When the shareholder return exceeds the required return to equity, a firm creates value for its shareholders. This study also showed that although, in certain years, the companies under study have high values of equity book value and equity market value, they didn’t create value for their shareholders since the shareholder return was less than the equity required return in those years.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116364551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drivers and Barriers to the Uptake of a FTTH Ultra-Fast Broadband in New Zealand","authors":"Farhaan Mirza, F. Beltrán","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2241514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2241514","url":null,"abstract":"New Zealand (NZ) is currently implementing a high-speed fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband project known as the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative. In this article we explore drivers and barriers of consumer adoption of UFB. We use a mixed methods approach for conducting empirical research, which includes interviewing broadband consumers, and analyzing secondary research insights from industry. Using grounded theory we postulate research frameworks for consumer adoption of UFB access (CAUA), and consumer adoption of UFB content (CAUC) to portray pertinent consumer drivers, barriers, and deciding factors for the UFB initiative. We find that consumer awareness and pricing are main factors that need to be addressed for a successful UFB rollout. This case study presents us with a timely unique opportunity to analyze the issues involved as the market evolves and stabilizes. This research has the advantage of gathering consumer resistance insights from an early phase of technological introduction.","PeriodicalId":332343,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Telecommunications (Topic)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130758114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}