Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana

Every nation wants to achieve Universal Access of telecommunication services due to its importance to the economy and national life. Unfortunately in sub-Saharan Africa, telecommunication services are either scarce or non-existent in rural areas. However, previous telecommunication policies have ena...

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Autor principal:	Williams,Idongesit
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2011
Materias:	Policy innovation telecom market incentive rural telecommunications universal access
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-272420110003000072011-12-28Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural GhanaWilliams,Idongesit Policy innovation telecom market incentive rural telecommunications universal access Every nation wants to achieve Universal Access of telecommunication services due to its importance to the economy and national life. Unfortunately in sub-Saharan Africa, telecommunication services are either scarce or non-existent in rural areas. However, previous telecommunication policies have enabled the provision of various network technologies in Africa. What type of policy is needed to push these telecommunication services into rural areas? This paper discusses the importance of issuing a using Free Spectrum policy to as an incentive to small telecom network operators in Africa. Ghana is used as a test case.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.6 n.3 20112011-10-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242011000300007en10.4067/S0718-27242011000300007
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description	Every nation wants to achieve Universal Access of telecommunication services due to its importance to the economy and national life. Unfortunately in sub-Saharan Africa, telecommunication services are either scarce or non-existent in rural areas. However, previous telecommunication policies have enabled the provision of various network technologies in Africa. What type of policy is needed to push these telecommunication services into rural areas? This paper discusses the importance of issuing a using Free Spectrum policy to as an incentive to small telecom network operators in Africa. Ghana is used as a test case.
author	Williams,Idongesit
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title	Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana
title_short	Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana
title_full	Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana
title_fullStr	Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana
title_full_unstemmed	Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana
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publisher	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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Telecom Policy Innovation: the Role of Free Spectrum and Telecommunication Development in Rural Ghana

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