info: Volume 11 Issue 2
Table of contents - Special Issue: Network development: wireless applications for the next billion users
Guest Editors: Amy K. Mahan, William H. Melody
Counting customers, subscribers and mobile phone numbers
Ewan SutherlandThe purpose of this article is to identify policy issues arising from discrepancies between the various sources of numbers of customers for mobile networks.
Market structure and penetration in the Latin American mobile sector
Judith MariscalThis paper aims to offer an analysis of the market structure in the mobile telephony market in Latin America and its impact on its development. Given the importance of mobile…
The telecommunications policy process in post‐conflict developing countries: the case of Liberia
Michael L. Best, Dhanaraj ThakurThe purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the telecommunications policy process in immediate post‐conflict countries and how that process differs from…
Two complementary mobile technologies for disaster warning
Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan WaidyanathaOver 50 percent of the disasters occur in Asia and in the past five year disasters in the region have killed around half million people. Most of these deaths could have been…
Exploring mobile phone‐sharing practices in Ghana
Araba SeyThe purpose of this paper is to present research evidence on mobile phone sharing practices in a developing country context.
Mobile telephone opportunities: the case of micro‐ and small enterprises in Ghana
Godfred FrempongEmerging literature from developing countries speak volumes of innovative application of mobile telephones to support the economic activities of the micro and small enterprises…
From voice ubiquity to mobile broadband: challenges of technology transition among low‐income Jamaicans
Hopeton S. DunnThe purpose of this paper is to examine how the prevailing widespread and popular access to mobile phones among Jamaica's poor may be used to support the public policy goal of…