The increased private investment in telecom in the 1990s dipped as part of the overall downturn following the bursting of the IT bubble, overbidding on 3G (Third generation) mobile and overbuilding of optic fi ber capacity at the turn of the century. [...] The fi rst section of this book, “Demand at the Bottom of the Pyramid” illustrates the existence of demand at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) at levels much higher than expected in terms of expenditure on telecom services. [...] Would the reform advocates have had the clout without the numbers provided by the extensive mobilization and the resources without the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Warnet (Warung Internet) cybercafés? [...] Liberalization The lifting of policy constraints on participation in the provision of connectivity may be described as liberalization, a process that achieved critical mass in 1984 with the AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph Company) divestiture in the United States and the re- forms in the United Kingdom that included the end of the British Telecom (BT) monopoly and the establishment of the Off [...] The wave of reforms that spread across the world since 1984 did not take long to build up momentum, as shown in Figure 4. The Asia-Pacifi c has emerged as the driver of worldwide connectivity expansion, with the East Asian Tigers supplying much of the needed hardware and also reaching saturation in basic services and the world’s two most populous countries, China and India, providing the numbers.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- List of Tables 8
- List of Figures 10
- List of Abbreviations 13
- Acknowledgements 18
- Introduction: What is… and What Could Have been... 20
- SECTION 1: DEMAND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID 32
- Introduction 34
- Chapter 1: What Do Users at the Bottom of the Pyramid Want? 40
- Chapter 2: Strategies on a Shoestring 61
- Chapter 3: I Just Called to Say: Teleuse under a Ceasefire 74
- SECTION 2: ACCESS, AGAINST ALL ODDS 98
- Introduction 100
- Chapter 4: Geektivism 104
- Chapter 5: Making a Business out of a Village Phone 117
- Chapter 6: Wi-Fi: The Network Fix 132
- SECTION 3: REGULATION: TO STIFLE OR ENABLE? 158
- Introduction 160
- Chapter 7: One Backbone, or Two? 164
- Chapter 8: The Dumbing-down of Smart Subsidies 192
- Chapter 9: Universal Service Obligations: To Incumbents 217
- Chapter 10: Access Deficit Tax? 241
- SECTION 4: WHAT COULD BE... 264
- Introduction 266
- Chapter 11: High AMPU from Low ARPU 268
- Chapter 12: Regulating for the Next Billion 297
- Chapter 13: …Through the Markets 304
- Appendices 311
- About the Editors and Contributors 321
- Index 327
- A 327
- B 327
- C 328
- D 328
- E 328
- F 329
- G 329
- H 329
- I 329
- J 330
- K 330
- L 330
- M 331
- N 331
- O 331
- P 331
- Q 332
- R 332
- S 332
- T 332
- U 333
- V 334
- W 334
- Y 334