Diffusion-of-new-technology-generations-in-mobile-communications_2010_Information-Economics-and-Policy精品.pdfVIP

Information Economics and Policy 22 (2010) 51–60 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information Economics and Policy journal homepage: /locate/iep Diffusion of new technology generations in mobile communications Anders Bohlin a, Harald Gruber a,*, Pantelis Koutroumpis b a European Investment Bank, 100 Bd Adenauer, 2950 Luxembourg, Luxembourg b Imperial College, Business School, SW7 2AZ London, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The study identifies factors that affect the diffusion of new generations of mobile telecom- Available online 11 November 2009 munications technologies. Per capita income, urbanisation and Internet/broadband pene- tration, as well as regulation, positively affect diffusion across all generations of mobile JEL classification: technologies. However, there are also several remarkable differences in diffusion patterns O33 over generations. Diffusion of first generation technologies boosts the adoption process of L96 second generation networks, but second generation adoption negatively affects adoption of third generation technologies. Second generation technologies are unaffected by the spread Keywords: Mobile telecommunications of third generation technologies. Competition between firms has been found to be the key Diffusion of innovation determinant of the diffusion speed across all generations, but there are indications that