Telecommunications Policy
Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community
Despite increased investment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of households in the rural United States still lack adequate access to high-speed internet. In this study, we evaluate a wireless broadband network deployed in Turney, a small, underserved rural community in northwest Missouri. In addition to collecting survey data before and after this internet intervention, we collected pre-treatment and post-treatment survey data from comparison communities to serve as a control group.
The role of mobile network operators in next-generation public safety services
The purpose of this research is to provide a review of ongoing public safety mobile broadband projects in which mobile operators play a key role. The results show that mobile operators have new business opportunities in the public safety market. Their existing mobile networks can be used for public safety services with certain enhancements. Within existing projects, mobile operators have different business models. The two analysed models were found to require different resources and offer different business opportunities for mobile operators.
Selling spectrum in the presence of shared networks: The case of the Israeli 5G auction (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/13/2022 - 06:22Ultra-broadband investment and economic resilience: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 12:24Report | 5G and the notion of network ideology, or: The limitations of sociotechnical imaginaries (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Sun, 10/23/2022 - 23:54Technological sovereignty of the EU in advanced 5G mobile communications: An empirical approach (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 10/19/2022 - 15:27App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 10/16/2022 - 15:24Development of the ICT sector and the determinants of Internet use in the Southern Caucasus (Telecommunications Policy)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:04Community-wide broadband adoption and student academic achievement
This study examines the relationship between broadband adoption and county-level educational achievement in the US in which a novel measure of home broadband subscriptions to explore longitudinal community impacts of broadband adoption on aggregated standardized test scores in math and reading/language arts for students enrolled in 3rd-8th grades. A panel was created of US counties and measured the effect of broadband adoption on student educational achievement by estimating a fixed effect estimator. Key highlights from the research showed the following: