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Smart meters: Compliance with radio frequency exposure standards
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Wednesday 10 Jun 2015 | 2015 | Brochure | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Devices | EMF Policy | Global |
This brochure has been designed to answer questions you may have about compliance of smart meters with radio frequency exposure standards and whether there is a risk to health. Smart meters use low ...
Closing the Coverage Gap: A view from Asia
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Thursday 4 Jun 2015 | 2015 | Asia Pacific and Greater China | Digital Inclusion | Infrastructure Sharing | Research & Reports | Rural Network Coverage | State of the Industry and Trends |
Affordability and network coverage are the two largest barriers to driving mobile internet access among non-adopters. In this report we focus on network coverage. Globally, 90% of the world’s population is covered by 2G networks and ...
mYouth: Programme overview
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Monday 1 Jun 2015 | 2015 | Brochure | Child Online Protection | Children and Mobile Technology | Global | mYouth |
Mobile technology offers young people many new ways to learn, engage and communicate. As an industry, we must work to promote these opportunities while also developing strategies to protect young people and encourage them to use mobile ...
Assessing the case for in-country mobile consolidation
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Tuesday 26 May 2015 | 2015 | Competition Policy | Europe | Research & Reports |
There have been a number of recent mobile mergers and proposed mergers across Europe involving a reduction in the number of mobile network operators in each market from 4 to 3. This has happened amid intense debates about the merits of ...
Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Jordan 2015
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Friday 1 May 2015 | 2015 | Digital Inclusion | Middle East and North Africa | Research & Reports | Taxation |
Since the launch of the first mobile telecommunication network in Jordan in 1995, the market has grown rapidly. Today 70% of the population in Jordan has at least one mobile subscription and over 2 million people have access to the ...
Small cells and health
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Wednesday 1 Apr 2015 | 2015 | Brochure | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Networks | EMF Science | Global |
This brochure has been designed to answer questions you may have about small cells. We have all read or heard about concerns raised from time to time regarding the safe use of radio waves and wireless communications ...
Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Bangladesh 2015
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Sunday 1 Mar 2015 | 2015 | Asia Pacific and Greater China | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Taxation |
Since the award of the first licence in 1989, the mobile sector in Bangladesh has enabled 66 million Bangladeshis to gain access to transformative mobile technologies, including the mobile internet. The increase in mobile access has ...
Mobile Policy Case Studies
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Sunday 1 Mar 2015 | 2015 | Capacity Building and Training | Case Study | Digital Economy | Digital Identity | EMF and Health | Environmental Sustainability | Global | Handbook | Mobile Alliance | Mobile Money | SIM Registration | Taxation | Universal Service Funds |
A companion to the GSMA Mobile Policy Handbook, this is a collection of brief, incisive case studies about regulatory policy, public-private collaboration and industry initiatives that align with government objectives. These real-world ...
Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Ghana 2015
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Friday 27 Feb 2015 | 2015 | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Sub-Saharan Africa | Taxation |
In the last decade, the mobile sector in Ghana has enabled 12.6 million Ghanaians, about 50% of the population, to access the benefits of mobile communications. This increase in access is bringing wide-ranging benefits to the Ghanaian ...
Assessing the case for in-country mobile consolidation in emerging markets
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Thursday 26 Feb 2015 | 2015 | Competition Policy | Global | Research & Reports |
This study, commissioned by the GSMA and authored by Frontier Economics, considers the question of, under what circumstances, a reduction in the number of mobile operators in an emerging market might benefit consumers and how, ...
Benefits of network competition and complementary policies to promote mobile broadband coverage
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Monday 16 Feb 2015 | 2015 | Digital Inclusion | Global | Infrastructure Sharing | Research & Reports | Rural Network Coverage |
Frontier Economics was commissioned by the GSMA to conduct this study on the merits and potential barriers of promoting mobile broadband coverage under the network competition model. PDF Downloads:
Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Pakistan 2015
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Sunday 1 Feb 2015 | 2015 | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Taxation |
Today, mobile networks support essential services that boost productivity and drive economic growth for the 60 million Pakistanis that have access to them. In parallel, 120 million of their fellow citizens remain unconnected. ...
Digital inclusion and mobile sector taxation in Tanzania 2015
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Sunday 1 Feb 2015 | 2015 | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Sub-Saharan Africa | Taxation |
The number of Tanzanians with access to mobile telephony has more than tripled since 2007, and now over 17 million Tanzanians, 34% of the population, have a mobile phone. This increase in access is delivering wide-ranging benefits in ...
The Global Telecom Tower Esco Market: Overview of the global market for energy to telecom towers in off-grid and bad-grid areas
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Friday 19 Dec 2014 | 2014 | Environmental Sustainability | Global | Infrastructure Sharing | Research & Reports | Rural Network Coverage |
By 2020, an estimated 390,000 telecom towers will be deployed in off-grid locations, and 790,000 towers will be deployed in bad-grid locations. This will result in an annual diesel expense of about $19 billion and GHG emission of about ...
European mobile network operator mergers: A regulatory assessment
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Monday 8 Dec 2014 | 2014 | Competition Policy | Europe | Research & Reports |
This briefing report has been produced by Frontier Economics at the request of the GSMA. It summarises the key findings of a longer report, 'Assessing the case for in-country mobile consolidation', which the GSMA will publish in May ...
Government intervention in the South African broadband market
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Thursday 25 Sep 2014 | 2014 | Case Study | Digital Inclusion | Infrastructure Sharing | Research & Reports | Rural Network Coverage | Sub-Saharan Africa | Universal Service Funds |
Frontier Economics has been commissioned by the GSMA to produce a report considering the current situation in the South African broadband market. In particular, the South African Government has set ambitious targets for broadband ...
Assessing the case for Single Wholesale Networks in mobile communications
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Wednesday 17 Sep 2014 | 2014 | Competition Policy | Digital Inclusion | Global | Infrastructure Sharing | Research & Reports | Rural Network Coverage |
Policymakers in a number of countries are proposing to establish a single wholesale network (SWN) instead of relying upon competing mobile networks to deliver 4G mobile broadband services in their country. These proposals often ...
Surtaxes on International Incoming Traffic in Africa 2014
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Tuesday 16 Sep 2014 | 2014 | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Sub-Saharan Africa | Taxation |
The report studies the effects of the Surtax on International Incoming Traffic (SIIT) in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and on regional integration. The report findings are in line with a recent similar publication from the ...
Sub-Saharan Africa – Universal Service Fund study
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Monday 1 Sep 2014 | 2014 | Digital Inclusion | Research & Reports | Sub-Saharan Africa | Taxation | Universal Service Funds |
The Sub-Saharan Africa Universal Service Fund (USF) study finds that USFs in the region do not appear to be the most appropriate mechanism for providing universal access and service, and to furthering social and economic improvement in ...
LTE Technology and Health
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Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 | 2014 | Brochure | EMF and Health | EMF and Mobile Networks | EMF Policy | EMF Science | Global |
Mobile broadband typically refers to providing customers with high speed data while on the move. There are several technologies capable of delivering commercial Mobile Broadband services. The GSMA has produced this brief to describe ...
