Telecommunications Policy

This study explores privacy issues complicated by the commodification of consumer health data in the United States by looking into loyalty programs (LPs). Three LPs – those of Nike, Walgreens, and DICK’S Sporting Goods – are examined because ...

• Consumer loyalty programs expand beyond one brand and one consumer in the digital age.
• Loyalty programs are increasingly entangled with health technologies like wearables.
• Discourse analysis shows how loyalty programs naturalize ...

As a novel form of infrastructure, 6G is poised to become an indispensable component of the future digital economy and serves as a solid guarantee for the development of human society. Given that technological innovation inherently possesses ...

• This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the value proposition of 6G and examines it from a demand perspective.
• We discuss 6G values in the horizontal dimension, including economic, social, ecological, cultural, and strategic ...

As many Over-The-Top (OTT) users opt for mobile devices, mobile network traffic surges. However, current mobile communication technology faces difficulties. To provide a stable video content consumption experience to users, reliable alternatives ...

• As Many Over-The-Top (OTT) users opt for mobile devices, mobile network traffic surges.
• However, current mobile communication technology faces difficulties.
• Wireless Device-to-Device (D2D) caching networks provide a solution to ...

As regulators began prohibiting online platforms from collecting personal data based on the “take-it-or-leave-it” basis, platform firms must adopt more refined user consent rules such as the pay-or-consent approach. Ensuring sufficient user ...

• Ensuring sufficient user options can increase or decrease user welfare.
• Enforcing identical user consent conditions for all users is inappropriate.
• Three user segments in terms of privacy attitudes in free online platforms are ...

Mobile payment presently leads the fintech market as an alternative tool for daily transactions. Mobile payment research has remained limited to the field of technological research, but the need for research from a social science perspective has ...

• Mobile payment leads the fintech market as an alternative tool for daily transactions.
• The need for mobile payment research from a social science perspective has burgeoned.
• This paper examines the research trends by conducting an ...

This study suggests a method to analyze, theorize, and conceptualize public participation in policymaking. Participation is a fundamental component of democracy and is derived from the right to actualize the public's sovereignty by participating ...

• Public consultations on Net Neutrality in both the US and Israel kept the public away from the decision-making process.
• Assessing participation in policymaking poses methodological difficulties and tends to normatively subjective value ...

Indices to measure the extent and penetration of information in an economy are static measures. Information, however, is a dynamic, expanding resource. Information is produced when data from digital computers articulate with human-generated ...

• Information is a dynamic, expanding economic resource contributing to TFP growth.
• A dynamic measure for information is developed using systemic design thinking.
• Data are processed into information via TFP-information absorption ...

Ubiquitous high-speed fiber-based and mobile broadband availability is a key economic policy goal in the European Union and other developed countries. Policymakers seek to boost economic growth, productivity, and employment, especially in remote ...

• We review the existing empirical literature on high-speed broadband.
• We consider the most relevant socioeconomic effects of modern broadband.
• We find huge benefits in terms of economic growth, productivity and resilience.
• ...

This project examines how state broadband policies diffused among the states in the United States over the last 30-year period utilizing a network approach and the State Broadband Explorer dataset curated by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Broadband ...

• This study is the first attempt to infer the latent network of state broadband policies diffusion in the U.S.
• It empirically examines state broadband policies diffusion network, identifying key innovators, facilitators, and adopters.

There is an intrinsic relationship between innovation and digitalization, marked by the specific and structural socioeconomic characteristics of our regions and countries. These characteristics explain the territory heterogeneity and determine in ...

• EU Digitalization and Innovation thrive on human capital and research but lack SME support; R&D investments are insufficient.
• They rely on a stable economy, public and private advanced consumer behavior, and employment in knowledge-...