info: Volume 4 Issue 1
Table of contents
Authorities, competition and electronic communications: Towards institutional competition in the information society
P.L.G. NihoulOne often thinks of competition as a mechanism whereby undertakings are forced to answer more efficiently the needs of clients. One may wonder whether that system could be used to…
Show me the money: contracts and agents in service level agreement markets
William Lehr, Lee W. McKnightDelivering real‐time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business‐critical data applications) across the Internet requires end‐to‐end…
Interconnect outcomes: to impose or negotiate – the experiences of Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia
Nico Roehrich, Mark ArmstrongThis article surveys the recent experience of resolving access and interconnection issues in four quite different economies in East Asia: Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and…
Licensing of third generation (3G) mobile
Joanna Goodrick, Lara Srivastava3G is important for developed countries but the stakes are even higher for developing countries since failure to develop 3G could widen the “digital divide” even further. While…
Agent‐based modelling of customer behaviour in the telecoms and media markets
Paul Twomey, Richard CadmanAgent‐based modelling is a bottom‐up approach to understanding systems which provides a powerful tool for analysing complex, non‐linear markets. The method involves creating…