National Broadband Policies and Market Development

Does mobile telephony spur growth? Evidence from Indian states

“…In an early cross-country study, Ahn, and Lee (1999) uncovered a complementary relationship between fixed and mobile telephony. These findings were echoed in subsequent research for African (Hamilton, 2003) and Central European OECD (Gruber, 2001) provide evidence in support of substitutability between fixed and mobile telephony for both advanced (Garcia-Marinoso and Suarez, 2013;Rodini, Ward, & Woroch, 2003;Srinuan, Srinuan, & Bohlin, 2012) as well as in diverse emerging markets, such as Korea (Sung, & Lee, 2002), Egypt (Gelvanovska, Rogy, & Rossotto, 2014) and India (Gupta, & Jain, 2012. Recognizing the possible endogeneity between mobile phone penetration and economic growth, recent studies have addressed this deficiency by using system GMM estimator, as in Lee, Lavendis, and Gutirrez (2009).…”

Are there peas in a pod when considering mobile phone and mobile applications use: A quantitative study

“…Previous studies found that higher income females are able to enjoy using different mobile applications, since they can afford to access mobile internet (Srinuan et al, 2012;Komunte, 2015). This relates to mobile applications usage in many countries in the Middle East where there are high costs for mobile internet access (Gelvanovska et al, 2014;GSMA, 2018a). Thus:…”

“…From an academic perspective, despite acknowledgement of the significant role of income (Gelvanovska et al, 2014), there is a gap in research on developing countries when analysing this factor as a moderating factor that affects female use of mobile phones and mobile applications. Previous research studied gender, age or experience as moderating factors which were present in past adoption and use studies using classic theories like, the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) (Venkatesh et al, 2003).…”