[PDF] Telecommunications In Transition eBook

Author : Charles W. Steinfield
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803946071

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In today's global economy, the role of telecommunications is becoming increasingly strategic. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the evolving European Community where the players, issues, emerging technologies, services and policy trends are undergoing unprecedented change. In this volume, leading scholars from both North America and Europe provide the necessary background information for analyzing European telecommunications policies, including conceptual frameworks, institutional structures, liberalization approaches and new technology and service initiatives. This is the only text to examine issues comparatively across national contexts, and includes a broad perspective of the entire European Community.

Author : Michel Carpentier
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 1992-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A technical, legal and political survey of the globalization of the telecommunications industry, with emphasis on American regulatory systems. Presents an informed, detailed account of how the European Economic Community, particularly the Communities Commission, has reacted to technical developments in telecommunications which impact the foundation of the continent's nervous system. Examines the opportunities and vulnerabilities of the telecommunications scene in Europe, particularly the struggle against under-utilization of resources, business equilibrium and technological independence.

Author : Dave Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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The South African telecommunications industry is at a crucial stage in its technological development, facing choices that will have long-term effects on private consumers and large-scale industry alike. In The crossed line, David Kaplan examines the development of the telecommunications industry in South Africa and, sometimes controversially, discusses the problems that have beset it. In analyzing the factors which will determine its future structure and operations, he turns to comparative studies of the industry in a number of countries. The book provides a critique of the public communications network administered by the South African Post Office. It also explains the workings of the local industry which supplies equipment to the telecommunications network. Kaplan substantiates his text with data, tables and many interviews. The information he provides is pertinent and detailed enough to remain valuable for reference purposes.

Author : Benjamin M. Compaine
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262032926

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A collection of research reports on policy issues involving telecommunications, particularly the Internet. Until the 1980s, it was presumed that technical change in most communications services could easily be monitored from centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With the Internet, the long-forecast convergence of voice, video, and text bits became a reality. Legislation, capped by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, created new quasi-standards such as "fair" and "reasonable" for the FCC and courts to apply, leading to nonstop litigation and occasional gridlock. This book addresses some of the many telecommunications areas on which public policy makers, corporate strategists, and social activists must reach agreement. Topics include the regulation of access, Internet architecture in a commercial era, communications infrastructure development, the Digital Divide, and information policy issues such as intellectual property and the retransmission of TV programming via the Internet.