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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998: Americas
Author: General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998: World
Author: General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998
Author: General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998: Europe
Author: General Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1998: Arab States
Author: Telecommunications Reform in Malawi
Author: Frew Amare GebreabPublisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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In 1998 the Government of Malawi decided to reform its telecommunications sector. Although the reform was ambitious in some ways, it was modest when compared with the most ambitious reforms adopted elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. The two main accomplishments were splitting the incumbent fixed line monopoly, the Malawi Post and Telecommunications Corporation, into two companies-Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) and Malawi Post Corporation (MPC)-and issuing two new cellular licenses to two new private entrants. In addition, the Government also established a new regulator which was separate from, but heavily dependent on, the Ministry of Information and liberalized entry in value-added and Internet services. However, the Government had neither privatized the fixed-line telecommunications operator nor introduced competition in fixed-line services by the end of 2002. Clarke, Gebreab, and Mgombelo discuss sector performance before reform, details of the reform, the political motivation for reform, and events in the five years following the reform. The reform yielded mixed results. Although cellular penetration and Internet use expanded dramatically following reform, prices increased, especially for cellular calls, and fixed-line penetration remains low by regional standards.
Trends in Telecommunication Reform 1999
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Summarises the 1999 ITU report on Trends in Telecommunication Reform which examines the impact of digital convergence on the reform of the telecommunication sector. Focuses on national regulatory regimes.
Cellular
Author: Daniel D. Garcia-SwartzPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026237000X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Tracks the evolution of the international cellular industry from the late 1970s to the present. The development of the mobile-phone industry into what we know today required remarkable cooperation between companies, governments, and industrial sectors. Companies developing cellular infrastructure, cellular devices, cellular network services, and eventually software and mobile semiconductors had to cooperate, not simply compete, with each other. In this global history of the mobile-phone industry, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly examine its development in the United States, Europe, Japan, and several emerging economies, including China and India. They present the evolution of mobile phones from the perspective of vendors of telephone equipment and network operators, users whose lives have been transformed by mobile phones, and governments that have fostered specific mobile-phone standards. Cellular covers the technical aspects of the cellphone, as well as its social and political impact. Beginning with the 1980s, the authors trace the development of closed (proprietary) and open (available to all) cellular standards, the impact of network effects as cellular adoption increased, major technological changes affecting mobile phone hardware, and the role of national governments in shaping the industry. The authors also consider the changing roles that cellular phones have played in the everyday lives of people around the world and the implications 5G technology may have for the future. Finally, they offer statistics on how quickly the cellular industry grew in different regions of the world and how firms competed in those various markets. Cellular is published in the History of Computing Series. This distinguished series has played a major role in defining scholarship in the history of computing. Hallmarks of the series are its technical detail and interpretation of primary source materials.
The Ethics of Cyberspace
Author: Cees J HamelinkPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761966692
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiquettes and codes of conduct, but they are of little help in solving the moral dilemmas raised by the new technologies. In this book the author analyzes the inadeqacies of current global governance policies and structures that underpin them, and argues for standards which put justice, human security and freedom first.
An Empirical Analysis of competition, Privatization, and Regulation in telecommunications Market in Africa and Latin America
Author: Scott J. WallstenPublisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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