New Ideas for digital affordability Is a paradigm shift possible?
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digital affordability
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Affordability is an important and recurrent issue in telecommunications and the digital economy. With the rise of the Internet and mobiles, there have emerged a range of new ideas about addressing long-standing affordability issues. Yet it has been difficult for the interested policy actors to forge such ideas into a new paradigm, and even harder to gain a new consensus and public support. Accordingly, this paper considers this policy impasse, analyses leading directions, and argues for the importance of arriving at a new carefully coordinated and unified approach to affordability.
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Gasmi, F.; Maingard, A.; Noumba, P.; L. Recuero Virto. 2013. ?The Privatization of the Fixed-Line Telecommunications Operator in OECD, Latin America, Asia, and Africa: One Size Does Not Fit All.? World Development 45: 189-208.
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Henderson, Angus; Gentle, Iain; Ball, Elise. 2005. ?WTO Principles and Telecommunications in Developing Countries: Challenges and Consequences of Accession.? Telecommunications Policy 29: 205-221.
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Klein, Dorothea. 2013. ‘Technologies of Choice: ICTs, Development, and the Capabilities Approach’. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Levin, Stanford L. 2010. ‘Universal Service and Targeted Support in a Competitive Telecommunications Environment.’ Telecommunications Policy 34: 92-97.
Ling, Rich. 2012. ‘Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society’. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Low Income Measures Assessment Committee (LIMAC). 2012. ‘Report to the Minister for Communications. Melbourne: Telstra’. Accessed 19 May, 2014. Available from http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/download/document/2011-limac-report-to-the-minister-final-web.pdf
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Madianou, Mirca; Daniel Miller. 2012. ‘Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia’. London and New York: Routledge.
McElhinney, Stephen. 2001. ‘Telecommunications Liberalisation and the Quest for Universal Service in Australia.’ Telecommunications Policy 25: 233-248.
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Middleton, Catherine; Jock Given. 2011. ‘The Next Broadband Challenge: Wireless.’ Journal of Information Policy. Vol. 1 (2011), pp. 36-56
Milne, Claire. 2000. ‘Affordability of Basic Telephone Service: An Income Distribution Approach.’ Telecommunications Policy 24: 907-927.
Morsillo, Robert. 2012. ‘Affordable Broadband for All Australians.’ Telecommunications Journal of Australia 62 (5): 80.1- 80.16.
Moyal, Ann. 1984. ‘Clear Across Australia: A History of Telecommunications. Melbourne: Nelson’.
Nakamura, Akihiro. 2013. ‘Retaining Telecommunications Services when Universal Service is Defined by Functionality: Japanese Consumers? Willingness-to-Pay.’ Telecommunications Policy 37: 662-672.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 1991. Universal Service and Rate Restructuring. Paris: OECD.
OECD. 1995. Universal Service Obligations in a Competitive Telecommunications Environment. Paris: OECD.
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Poblet, Marta. 2013. ‘A New Digital Economy is Calling.’ Telecommunications Journal of Australia 1 (1), http://doi.org/10.7790/ajtde.v1n1.12
Potts, Jason. 2014. ‘Economics of Public WiFi.’ Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 2 (1), http://telsoc.org/ajtde/2014-03-v2-n1/a20
Rajabiun, Reza; Middleton, Catherine A. 2013. ‘Multilevel governance and broadband infrastructure development: Evidence from Canada.’ Telecommunications Policy 37 (9): 702-714.
Rennie, Ellie; Crouch, Andrew; Wright, Alyson; Thomas, Julian. 2013. ‘At Home on the Outstation: Barriers to Home Internet in Remote Indigenous Communities.’ Telecommunications Policy 37: 583-593.
Rudd, Kevin (Prime Minister); Treasurer; Minister for Finance; Minister for Broadband. 2009. ‘New National Broadband Network.’ Joint Media Release, 7 April. Accessed 19 May, 2014, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/80090/20091110-0000/www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/022.html
Taket, Ann; Lamaro, Greer; Barter-Godfrey, Sarah; Crisp, Beth R.; Graham, Melissa; Nevill, Annemarie. eds. 2009. Theorizing Social Exclusion. London: Routledge.
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Wai-chi Chu, Rodney; Fortunati, Leopoldina; Law, Pui-Law; Yang, Shanhua. eds. 2012. Mobile Communication and Greater China. London and New York: Routledge.
Weidner, Kelly L.; Rosa, Jos? Antonio; Viswanathan, Madhu. 2010. ‘Marketing to Subsistence Consumers: Lessons from Practice.’ Journal of Business Research 63: 559-569.
Wilson, Ian; Goggin, Gerard. 1993. ‘Reforming Universal Service: The Future of Consumer Access and Equity in Australian Telecommunications. Sydney: Consumers’ Telecommunications Network.
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