An analysis of mobile Internet access in Thailand: Implications for bridging the digital divide

Srinuan, Chalita; Srinuan, Pratompong; Bohlin, Erik

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2011.10.003

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“…For example, China has sought to increase Internet access in remote rural areas (Harwit 2004;Lai 2010) and has promoted the mobile Internet there (Loo and Ngan 2012). Similar programs exist in South Korea (Moon et al 2012), Thailand (Srinuan, Srinuan, and Bohlin 2012), and Malaysia (Nair et al 2010). The Indian government has initiated several commissions to bridge the country's digital divide, with limited success, such as Gyandoot, a series of digital information kiosks in Madhya Pradesh launched in 2000 (Rao 2005;Monga 2008).…”

Section: E-government and Digital Dividesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asian geographies of e-government

Warf

2014

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Roughly, 40 percent of people in Central, South, East, and Southeast Asia now use the Internet. Given the technology's growth, many governments have adopted it to reshape how they interact with their citizens, including tax collection and service provision. There are a variety of applications of e-government ranging from downloading of forms to more interactive types, such as applications for licenses, Internet voting, and citizen input into public policy. This paper opens with a review of e-government and its implications. Second, it turns to the digital divide in Asia, a major obstacle to e-government implementation. Third, it utilizes two measures of e-government compiled by the United Nations: the e-government readiness and e-participation scores, to provide an overview of how e-government implementation varies among the region's countries. The fourth part offers a series of vignettes that highlight how e-government varies among countries, including the most and least successful examples. It concludes by emphasizing that there is no standard model that can be used to understand the phenomenon; rather e-government must be understood contextually and in a geographically specific manner.The extremely rapid growth of the Internet -now used by 37 percent of the world's population -has unleashed enormous changes in how the planet's netizens (Internet users) communicate, are entertained, shop, obtain information, and interact. It has also changed how governments interact with their citizens. Electronic government, or e-government, has become increasingly widespread not only in the economically developed world, but in developing countries as well. Definitions of e-government vary (Yildiz 2007), but all involve the use of the Internet to deliver government information and services, change administrative procedures, and improve citizen input and participation. Web 2.0, which allows users to interact with government bureaucracies rather than just passively receive information, has expedited this process considerably. The topic has been extensively scrutinized by scholars (for a review, see Rocheleau 2007). However, the bulk of such work concentrates on e-government in economically developed countries, while developing ones have been largely overlooked (Basu 2004).This paper examines e-government in Asia (here defined to exclude the Middle East), including its Central, South, East, and Southeast components. It has two primary goals: first, it seeks to illustrate that e-government has made steady gains throughout the region. Second, it demonstrates that social and spatial context matters: e-government preparedness, implementation, policies, and effects are highly uneven among (and likely *

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Section: E-government and Digital Dividesmentioning

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Asian geographies of e-government

Warf

2014

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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“…Several studies, on the other hand, suggest mobile Internet access is associated with income. For example, Srinuan et al (2012) considers price as one of the strongest factors of mobile Internet adoption in Thailand. Even in the context of the OECD countries, Lee et al (2011) suggest income as a factor of mobile broadband adoption.…”

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Expectations versus Reality: A Case of Internet in Nepal

Regmi

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The relation between Internet and development rests on the preconditions of minimum access, quality, affordability and many more. Presenting the picture of access, quality, and affordability, we raise doubts that Nepali internet infrastructure in its present form has any contribution to economic development. The Nepali policy circle also has felt the necessity of proliferating Internet access and use. But we argue major targets of the Nepali ICT policies are detached from the reality and hence failure prone. The formulation of a robust ICT policy cannot bypass the analyses of actualities of the demand side. There is a dearth of detailed statistics of ICT access, use, and affordability in Nepal. We thus recommend the government should conduct a census of ICT access, use, and affordability that would help the formulation of more grounded policies.

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“…They find that standardization policies and population density are essential factors for the initial diffusion of the service, and that fixed and mobile broadband services are complementary in OECD countries. Srinuan et al (2012a) use a binomial logit regression model and find that in Thailand the age, region of residence and availability of fixed telephony are significant drivers of mobile internet access. Finally, Srinuan et al (2012b) consider a panel dataset of Finnish households in 2009, and use a multinomial logit model to examine which household characteristics explain Internet adoption.…”

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Pricing strategies and competition in the mobile broadband market

Calzada

Martínez-Santos

2016

J Regul Econ

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This paper analyzes mobile broadband plan prices from 37 countries between 2011 and 2014. Mobile network operators typically commercialize usage-based plans that include an access fee, a usage allowance (number of GB included in the tariff plan), and a penalty system should consumers exceed the contracted allowance. Our empirical model shows that the prices of these plans are lower than those of unlimited contracts, and that they depend on the type of penalty that is used. The prices also reflect service characteristics, including the technology provided, the download speed, and telephone call allowances. Plans that bundle mobile broadband plans with smartphone devices have longer contract duration and may be more expensive than plans that only include a SIM card. Specifically, broadband service plans are priced higher when they include an iPhone or a Samsung smartphone. The paper also discusses the impact of market structure and entry regulation on prices.

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An analysis of mobile Internet access in Thailand: Implications for bridging the digital divide

Cited by 72 publications

References 18 publications

Asian geographies of e-government

Asian geographies of e-government

Expectations versus Reality: A Case of Internet in Nepal

Pricing strategies and competition in the mobile broadband market

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