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Internet and mobile phone diffusion and its determinants
Kračmerová, Veronika ; Polák, Petr (advisor) ; Serdarevič, Goran (referee)
This thesis examines determinants of an Internet and mobile phones diffusion and potentially different impacts of these determinants in case of developing and developed countries. For this purpose panel data from 199 countries for period from 1995 to 2012 are used. There is a number of variables including economic, technological, political and human capital factors. Benefits of this thesis are that the research uses updated dataset and it also adds new variables into its econometric model. This thesis also examines in detail the adoption of information and communication technologies in the Czech Republic, which has not been published previously. One of the conclusions is a finding that penetration of mobile phones and the Internet is faster in developing countries than in developed countries. Fixed effects method in the global testing also showed that the economic wealth of a country is an important determinant for the Internet only for developed countries, while for the mobile phones the GDP is a significant variable in both groups of countries. Analysis of the Czech Republic brings different results for both technologies, but the unemployment rate, which was added to the basic model, has proven to be an important determinant for both the Internet and mobile phones. Key words: Mobile phone,...
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Prospects of "Ladder of Investments" on telecommunication market
Kračmerová, Veronika ; Cahlík, Tomáš (advisor) ; Lebovič, Michal (referee)
The main objective of the thesis is the basic concept of the European regulatory policy for the fixed access network known as "Ladder of investments". The regulation is based on different levels of access to the infrastructure owned by the company with significant market power in the telecommunications market and its aim is to help alternative operators to build their own access network and thus to form an effective competition on the market. This thesis is focused on the regulation in the Czech Republic. It includes the development and current state of the Czech telecommunications market and tries to prove or disprove the success of the Ladder of investments in the Czech Republic. Keywords: Ladder of investments, liberalization and regulation of the telecommunications market, competitiveness, Replacement effect, Local Loop Unbundling, NGA networks
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