PhD Seminar
Announcement and Call for Papers
Seminar at the Second Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Society,
New Delhi, India, 13th December, 2015
In order to contextualize and strengthen research capabilities, the Second Regional Conference of the
International Telecommunications Society, New Delhi, 13th-15th December, 2015, India, is happy to
announce a PhD Seminar on 13th December, 2015. Selected participants of the PhD Seminar will be
eligible for a discount in the conference registration fee.
The seminar is being organized by the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad- Idea Telecom
Centre of Excellence, India (IITCOE- www.iitcoe.in) and the International Telecommunications Society
(ITS- www.itsworld.org).
The participant should submit research papers based on their PhD thesis. The length of the paper should
be upto 10,000 words.
Not more than eight papers will be selected from the responses to this call. In accordance with the
topics presented by the winning candidates, experts will be chosen to discuss new ideas brought
forward by the researchers. The focus will be on the discussion of ideas presented by the participants,
and less on the mere presentation of papers.
Successful participants will receive a joint certificate from the IIMA Idea Telecom Centre of Excellence
and the International Telecommunications Society (ITS). There will also be a best paper award.
IITCOE is one of the eight Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE - http://www.tcoe.in/) that has been
set up in Public Private Partnership mode with funding support from IDEA Cellular Ltd and the
Department of Telecommunication (DoT), India.
The International Telecommunications Society (ITS) is an association of academics and other
professionals in the information, communications, and technology sectors. Its network of researchers
comprises outstanding scholars in the field of telecommunications research that are well known from
the literature.
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Research Topics
Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics:
Internet and the Mobile Broadband
 Adoption and diffusion of mobile broadband
 Creating demand and awareness about mobile broadband.
 R&D in convergence, communication and mobile broadband
 Case studies of socio-economic impact of mobile broadband
Broadband Strategies- Infrastructure for National Adoption
 Challenges in adoption of new services.
 Social networking and societal/policy implication
 Social and business implications of emerging technologies
Spectrum and Technology
 The definition, specification and enforcement of property rights in spectrum
 Models for auctions and trading
 Issues in spectrum refarming
 Strategic management of spectrum
Wireless Technologies and Rural Access/ ICT and the Digital Divide
 Models, instruments and institutions for Universal Service
 Implications of emerging demographic contours for Universal Service
 Implication of convergence and broadband on Universal Service
Regulation
 ICT regulations driving Financial Inclusion
 Emergence of convergent regulatory bodies
 Regulatory Challenges of New Generation Networks (NGN). Need for governments to create
incentives for investment in NGN
 Regulation of interconnection of IP and circuit-switched networks
 Pricing
 The implications of convergence for competition (including VOIP and IPTV)
 Multi-platform competition: policies and implications for prices and services
 Evolution of institutional arrangements, political economy, and challenges to reform
 Experience of managing regulatory agencies
 Role of judicial processes and implication for scope of regulatory agencies
Regulation of telecommunication markets:
 Regulatory regimes and institutions
 Regulatory response to market dynamics
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Updating theoretical insights for better regulation
Current regulatory problems in Asia-Pacific, international and national levels
Regulating mobile services: justification, necessity, solutions
Challenges of convergence of telecommunication systems and content supply
 Supply chain configurations: the roles of telcos, content providers and intermediaries
 Regulatory problems of converging markets
 Internet Governance
Development of telecommunication markets
 Internationalisation of markets through mergers and FDI
 Technology driven vs. regulation or user driven markets
 Emerging markets
Telecommunications and Society
 Privacy issues
 Data security
 Digital divide
 Access to content
Social Media and Internet
 Social media trends: business models or community building
 Empirical Evidence
 Cloud Computing: opportunities and risks
This list is not exclusive. Other topics in the field of telecommunications, and Internet are also welcome.
If you are interested in attending the seminar, could you please send a (non-binding) expression of
interest to Rekha Jain and Erik Bohlin as soon as possible.
Please send your full paper together with a CV to Rekha Jain at rekha_iitcoe@iimahd.ernet.in and to
Erik Bohlin at erik.bohlin@chalmers.se within the deadline given below.
Important dates
Deadline for the submission of papers: 10th July 2015
Response by: 15th August 2015
Final paper to be submitted by: 15th October 2015
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