The Mobile Phone Market in Bangladesh: Competition Matters

Yusuf, Mohammad; Alam, Quamrul; Coghill, Ken

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“…Mobile phone subscriber as of March 2019 was 159.780 million (BTRC, 2019). The deregulation in telecommunication has introduced to provide a competitive market and service pricing (Yusuf et al, 2010). Till date, many ICT initiatives have been taken in Bangladesh to make the country digitize, which include security and general services (immigration support, case filing and status checking, etc.…”

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Exploring the Fundamental Factors of Digital Inequality in Bangladesh

Islam¹,

Inan²

2021

Sage Open

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Digital inequality is imperative to combat the perpetuation of national development and significantly exists in developing countries. Thus, the purpose of this article is to provide the underlying factors of creating digital inequality in Bangladesh. A mixed-method research approach was followed where both the qualitative and quantitative data were collected using focus group discussion (FGD), semi-structured interviews, and survey. The FGD and interviews were replicated with a total of 60 participants (each study with 30 participants), while 326 respondents participated in the survey study. The content analysis, word cloud, affinity diagram, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. As an outcome, the studies revealed 23 factors that create digital inequality in Bangladesh. The factors were clustered into five groups (referred as elements) of digital inequality through an affinity diagram. The resultant elements of digital inequality were educational, infrastructural, social, economic, and usable design. The results reflect on what factors should consider ensuring the inclusion, adoption, and contributions of information and communications technology in Bangladesh, which in turn contributes to reducing the digital inequality in Bangladesh. As a practical contribution, this research provides an in-depth scenario of digital inclusion and exclusion in Bangladesh, and the underline factors of creating digital inequality, so that nongovernmental organizations and government organizations may take necessary initiatives toward each dimension of digital inequality. The results also include identification of future research agenda toward reducing digital inequality.

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Exploring the Fundamental Factors of Digital Inequality in Bangladesh

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Inan²

2021

Sage Open

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“…This economic contribution comes from the direct impact of the mobile ecosystem as well as the indirect impact and the increase in productivity brought about using mobile technologies (GSMA, 2019). Since 2005, full liberalization of the mobile phone sector including the launching of a mobile phone service by a state-owned mobile firm and a strong rival as well as the emergence of an effective regulator brought stiff competition in the sector (Yusuf et al, 2010). The total number of active mobile phone subscribers has reached into 147 million at the end of January, 2018 (BTRC, 2019).…”

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Attitudinal Components and Repurchase Intention With the Mediating Role of Personality Traits

Hasan

2021

International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of cognitive and affective attitude on repurchase intention of mobile handsets of Bangladeshi consumers with the mediating role of innovatism, materialism, and self-uniqueness. The researchers collected survey data using simple random sampling method from selected areas of Barisal division. Total number of respondents of the study is 264. The results of this study showed that cognitive and affective components of attitude have a significant impact on repurchase intentions of mobile handsets in Bangladesh which is partially and fully mediated by innovatism and self-uniqueness. However, materialism has no mediation on the impact of cognitive and affective attitude on purchase intention. The study also shows that innovatism has negative influence on repurchase intention, but self-uniqueness and materialism has significant positive influence.

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Overcoming Geographic Penalties of Inequality

Sanders

Muir

Brown³

2018

Asian J. Soc. Sci.

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Geographic isolation and spatial inequality are growing issues for most countries. However, distance-demolishing technologies have been proposed as a solution of overcoming geographic barriers associated with geographic penalties. This research uses the rapid and widespread adoption of inexpensive motorcycles in Vietnam as a case study of how distance-demolishing technologies can improve household well-being. Utilising panel data from the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Vietnamese Household Living Standard Surveys, this research uses propensity score matching to isolate the effect that the introduction of a motorcycle has on household income. Our results show that new motorcycle ownership reduces spatial isolation penalties and significantly improves household well-being in Vietnam. In addition, marginalised populations, such as female-headed households and rural households, receive relatively larger returns from a new motorcycle. Our findings suggest that distance-demolishing technologies can contribute to the reduction of spatial inequality by helping households overcome both geographic and social barriers.

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The Mobile Phone Market in Bangladesh: Competition Matters

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Exploring the Fundamental Factors of Digital Inequality in Bangladesh

Exploring the Fundamental Factors of Digital Inequality in Bangladesh

Attitudinal Components and Repurchase Intention With the Mediating Role of Personality Traits

Overcoming Geographic Penalties of Inequality

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