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The Impact of Shared Telecom Infrastructure on Digital Connectivity and Inclusion

A substantial number of individuals remains unconnected to the Internet despite an increasing emphasis on infrastructure-based competition. This paper investigates the impact of shared telecom infrastructure on digital connectivity and inclusion using a new dataset on mobile tower sharing transactions between 2008 and 2020, i.e., acquisitions of towers by independent companies from mobile network operators to be rented back to all operators. Estimates based on differencein- differences with different timing of treatment suggest that these transactions resulted in a significant drop in the price of mobile connectivity as well as an increase in availability and uptake of mobile Internet, especially by rural households and women. Our findings suggest that increased competition intensity through reduced market concentration appears to be the main driver of these outcomes.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: 32nd European Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Realising the digital decade in the European Union – Easier said than done?", Madrid, Spain, 19th - 20th June 2023

Classification
Wirtschaft
Telecommunications
Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks
Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
Subject
Mobile Telecommunications
Vertical Integration
Digital Technology Adoption

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Houngbonon, Georges V.
Ivaldi, Marc
Palikot, Emil
Strusani, Davide
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
(where)
Calgary
(when)
2023

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Object type

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Associated

  • Houngbonon, Georges V.
  • Ivaldi, Marc
  • Palikot, Emil
  • Strusani, Davide
  • International Telecommunications Society (ITS)

Time of origin

  • 2023

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