Penetration of broadband services – The role of policies

Universal Service Policy in Vietnam: A Supply � Demand Perspective

“…This conclusion is also consistent with the study of Falch (2007) and Long (2010). As Falch (2007) states that it is important to stimulate the demand side via content development and increasing ICT skills. And Long (2010) indicates that universal service policy should spend money in promoting applications in education, agriculture, and health information by local language as well as funding of rural IT training.…”

Building the Next Information Superhighway: a Critical Analysis of China's Recent National Broadband Plan

“…Depending on the extent to which governments are engaged in broadband deployment, one can roughly distinguish three types of government policies and regulatory strategies: soft-intervention strategies, medium-intervention strategies, and hard-intervention strategies (Cava-Ferreruela & AlabauMuñoz, 2006). Overall, evidence from empirical findings exhibits a certain disunity on the government's role in broadband development (Belloc, Nicita, & Rossi, 2012;Cava-Ferreruela & Alabau-Muñoz, 2006;Falch, 2007;Picot & Wernick, 2007). Some argue that, although technical and economic parameters play the primary roles in the development of broadband services, public policy involvement is still worthwhile because it provides a clear and significant stimulus to broadband penetration (Belloc et al, 2012;Falch, 2007).…”

“…Overall, evidence from empirical findings exhibits a certain disunity on the government's role in broadband development (Belloc, Nicita, & Rossi, 2012;Cava-Ferreruela & Alabau-Muñoz, 2006;Falch, 2007;Picot & Wernick, 2007). Some argue that, although technical and economic parameters play the primary roles in the development of broadband services, public policy involvement is still worthwhile because it provides a clear and significant stimulus to broadband penetration (Belloc et al, 2012;Falch, 2007). Conversely, other works-including Montolio and Trillas (2013)-have found that indicators of national industrial policy constitute only a weakly positive determinant of broadband deployment and that different measures of centralization, which they call "regulatory federalism", are either irrelevant or have a negative impact on broadband deployment.…”

“…In addition, while both supply-and demand-side policies have a positive effect on broadband diffusion at the initial stage of broadband take-up, only demand-side policies appear to generate a positive and increasing effect after broadband penetration reaches a certain degree (Belloc et al, 2012). Thus, governments should use both supply-and demand-side policy tools to stimulate broadband development (Falch, 2007). In addition, from an end user's perspective, governments should focus on the main potential adopters at each stage of broadband adoption and implement appropriate strategies rather than adopting one-size-fits-all strategies (Lin & Wu, 2013).…”

A final flowering of the developmental state: The IT policy experiment of the Korean Information Infrastructure, 1995–2005

“…x As a public official who worked for the KII project pointed out, because South Korea's population is largely located in a few large urban areas and because most residents live in large apartment buildings, the MIC's facility-based Internet promotion policy was effective in expanding the penetration of high-speed Internet service into the general public. He added that, in the early stages of this program, the certificate system also allowed construction companies to raise the mortgage price on new government-certified "Internet-ready" apartments (Moon, (Falch, 2007;Lee & Chan-Olmsted, 2004). …”