Presently the concern over the security of mobile phones is driven by network operators wanting to stem the economic impact of losing subsidised terminals from their networks. Due to the vast price difference of products between subsidised and non-subsidised markets mobile terminals represent an attractive target to criminals. The result is that mobile terminals are under constant attack by hac...

I have been a major participant in spectrum auctions, since December 1993 when the United States was planning for its first spectrum auction. My involvement has been in all aspects of the auctions: advising governments on auction design, advising bidders on auction strategy, and conducting theoretical and empirical research. Since 1993, I have written over one-dozen research papers on spectrum ...

Cloud computing offers a range of new opportunities for developing countries to do what they could not do earlier with computers and the Internet. Cloud computing infrastructure and applications are able to interact with users who have mobile phones, Tablet PCs, OLPC [one-laptop-per-child], and other mobile devices. This paper looks at how cloud computing will surpass the Internet in adoption a...

During the past ten years, we have witnessed how mobile phones and the simple functions of voice and text messaging (SMS) can empower citizens and affect the way citizens interact with each other and with the society as whole. Mobile phones are also thought to open up for a deepened democracy through citizen participation and insight into state affairs, through influencing the political decisio...

We contrast the public interest theory with the public choice theory as an explanation for entry regulation. These theories give sharply opposing predictions on how political rights affect the way markets are designed in mobile telephony, where governments have to decide the number of firms. The key to our approach is that in (analog) mobile telephony, the fundamental market failure is a negati...

We investigate the relation between mobile phone usage and regional economic development in Côte d’Ivoire. Most previous studies on mobile phone communication focused on developed countries. Their results may be difficult to extend to developing countries. Here we study mobile communication in a developing nation, namely Côte d’Ivoire. Our main motivations are, first, that the effects of inform...

Mobile electronic identity (eID) management solutions are on the rise worldwide and see a rapid take-up by stakeholders. In this paper experts from the SSEDIC.2020 network study and review the status of mobile eID deployment and use in e-government as well as industry with a focus on Europe. The findings demonstrate that mobile eID solutions have the potential to become a major means for digita...

India is the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world with more than 850 million subscribers. Mobile phones have become an important component in Indian household. m-Governance is envisaged to propel the functioning of the government, at the next higher level. In this paper, we analyze the true potential of m-Governance in the Indian scene. Also, we examine the areas where the e-G...

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent governments. The two types of government differ in their education policies if highly productive lab...

M-government (Mobile Government) has become popular among many developing countries including Bangladesh. Since m-government is still in early stage of implementation, few studies have identified the acceptance factors of using services among citizen. However, most of the studies identified the adoption factors based on Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), Theory...