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SK Telecom is expanding its e-sports foray with a deal to form a global e-sports joint venture with professional sports and live entertainment company Comcast Spectacor.

The joint venture, T1 Entertainment, will comprise operations in Seoul, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. It is expected to become one of the top e-sports operations in the world upon its establishment.

The two…

The European telecommunications sector has been radically transformed in the past 25 years: from a group of state monopolies to a set of increasingly competitive markets. In this paper we summarize how this process has unfolded—for both fixed and mobile telecommunications—by focusing on the evolution of the regulatory framework and by drawing some parallels with the evolution of the sector in the…

This paper addresses two measurement issues for mobile phones. First, we develop a new mobile phone price index using hedonic quality-adjusted prices for smartphones and a matched-model index for feature phones. Our index falls at an average annual rate of 17 percent during 2010-2018, close to the rate of decline in the price index used in the GDP Accounts. Given relatively flat average prices…

We ask whether a weaker contribution of information and communication technologies (ICT) to productivity growth could account for the productivity slowdown observed in Canada since the early 2000s. To answer this question, we consider several methods capturing channels through which ICT could affect aggregate productivity growth. This includes an approach “à la Cette et al. (2015)” that focuses…

Ahead of this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has announced a series of projects and contracts with Asia-Pacific operators.

The Finnish vendor revealed it has signed an agreement with KT to trial various 5G technologies including NFV and network slicing in South Korea.

Under the collaboration, Nokia and KT will trial an end-to-end network service platform in…