info: Volume 17 Issue 2

The politics of margin squeeze in telecommunications: diverging paths of the US and EU

Fuat Oğuz

– This paper aims to study the historical origins of margin squeeze cases in the USA and Europe.

Bribery and corruption in telecommunications – the Kingdom of Morocco

Ewan Sutherland

– This paper aims to analyse telecommunications in Morocco and the control exercised by the absolute monarch who also owns one of three mobile operators.

Portfolios of control in mobile eco-systems: evolution and validation

Sandip Mukhopadhyay, Harry Bouwman, Mahadeo Jaiswal

This paper aims to study the critical role played by interorganizational control mechanisms in a mobile ecosystems and how the portfolios of control evolves when the service…

Smart for whom? Cost ambiguity as corporate strategy in the 21st century telco sector

Anthony Morven Gould, Guillaume Desjardins

This paper aims to expose techniques that telco vendors use for maximising revenue from their clients. Although the five-point strategy unearthed was based on the Canadian telco…

Multidimensionality: redefining the digital divide in the smartphone era

Eun-A Park, Sangwon Lee

In a converged and smart media environment, it no longer makes sense to talk only of a digital divide based on access to a platform – instead, a new “smartphone divide” is created…

And when they were up, they were up

Peter Curwen