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Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development (Paperback): Tony H. Grubesic, Elizabeth A. Mack Broadband Telecommunications and Regional Development (Paperback)
Tony H. Grubesic, Elizabeth A. Mack
R1,065 R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Save R96 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context, but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate its impacts on regional development. This book illuminates the regional impacts of this pervasive and important technology. The principle aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of broadband and its connections to regional development. First, it uses a geospatial lens to explore how the relationship between broadband and regional development influences access to technology platforms, dictates provision patterns, and facilitates the shrinkage of space and time in non-uniform and sometimes unexpected ways. Second, it book provides a comprehensive guide that details the strengths and weaknesses of publically available broadband data and their associated uncertainties, allowing regional development professionals and researchers to make more informed decisions regarding data use, analytical models and policy recommendations. Finally, this book is the first to detail the growing importance of broadband to digital innovation and entrepreneurship in regions. This book will be of interest to regional development professionals and researchers in economics, public policy, geography, regional science and planning.

Making Universal Service Policy - Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation (Paperback): Barbara A. Cherry,... Making Universal Service Policy - Enhancing the Process Through Multidisciplinary Evaluation (Paperback)
Barbara A. Cherry, Steven S. Wildman, Allen S. Hammond, Allen S. Hammond, IV
R787 R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Save R42 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the outgrowth of shared interests between the editors and the contributing authors to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. The book is interdisciplinary in nature to reflect the extremely complex context in which universal service policy is formed. The chapter authors represent a broad cross-section of disciplinary training, professional positions, and relationships in the telecommunications industry. Academic disciplines represented include law, economics, anthropology, communication, and business.
This book's purpose is to significantly enhance the development of effective telecommunications universal service policy among policymakers, industry members, and stakeholders in the United States. Universal service policy has been, and will continue to be, both enabled and constrained by the simultaneous interaction of social, political, technological, and economic forces in the environment in which it is formed. A more effective process for policy design is to seek agreement on how entitlements embedded in universal service policy should be modified as circumstances invariably change over time. Therefore, the volume reflects recent significant developments in U.S. universal service policy--the implementation of which continues to unfold.

Competition, Regulation, and Convergence - Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research (Hardcover): Sharon E. Gillett,... Competition, Regulation, and Convergence - Current Trends in Telecommunications Policy Research (Hardcover)
Sharon E. Gillett, Ingo Vogelsang
R3,935 R2,762 Discovery Miles 27 620 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The telecommunications industry has experienced dynamic changes over the past several years, and those exciting events and developments are reflected in the chapters of this volume. The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) holds an unrivaled place at the center of national public policy discourse on issues in communications and information. TPRC is one of the few places where multidisciplinary discussions take place as the norm. The papers collected here represent the current state of research in telecommunication policy, and are organized around four topics: competition, regulation, universal service, and convergence.
The contentious competition issues include bundling as a strategy in software competition, combination bidding in spectrum auctions, and anticompetitive behavior in the Internet. Regulation takes up telephone number portability, decentralized regulatory decision making versus central regulatory authority, data protection, restrictions to the flow of information over the Internet, and failed Global Information Infrastructure initiatives. Universal service addresses the persistent gap in telecommunications from a socioeconomic perspective, the availability of competitive Internet access service and cost modeling. The convergence section concentrates on the costs of Internet telephony versus circuit switched telephony, the intertwined evolution of new services, new technologies, and new consumer equipment, and the politically charged question of asymmetric regulation of Internet telephony and conventional telephone service.

Logics of Resistance - Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia (Hardcover): Steve Dubb Logics of Resistance - Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia (Hardcover)
Steve Dubb
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study examines how unions representing telephone workers--one in Mexico and one in British Columbia, Canada--have responded to changes in technology, work organization, and government policy stemming from the rise of a more global economy. Some business writers have suggested that globalization will compel unions to cooperate with managers as workers are more exposed to international competition. By analyzing the actual record of two unions in the highly internationalized telecommunications industry, however, a different picture emerges.

European Telecommunications Liberalisation (Hardcover, New): Kjell A. Eliassen, Marit Sjovaag Nfa, Marit Sjovaag European Telecommunications Liberalisation (Hardcover, New)
Kjell A. Eliassen, Marit Sjovaag Nfa, Marit Sjovaag
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Telecommunications is one of the most dynamic industries in the modern world, with new products and technologies appearing almost every week. As in many other industries, the last twenty years have brought extensive and far reaching liberalization, with more and more countries opening their markets. In the last decade all but five Member States of the European Union have legislated for full opening of all market segments. The remaining five look set for further liberalization befor 2004. This book examines the process and consequences of telecommunications liberalization in the context of ever closer European Union. The creation of a single market for telecommunications and of a wider European single market mirror one another. Telecommunications are also something of a test case for the privatization process, as this sector has traditionally been a state monopoly. The volume approaches the European experience from three angles: the politics of regulation and the process of liberalization in the EU (including case Studies of the UK, France, and Germany); increasing global economic interdependence makes international comparisons essential, and the volume compares the EU experience wi

Privatisation and Liberalisation in European Telecommunications - Comparing Britain, the Netherlands and France (Hardcover,... Privatisation and Liberalisation in European Telecommunications - Comparing Britain, the Netherlands and France (Hardcover, New)
Willem Hulsink
R4,377 Discovery Miles 43 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Preface 1. Introduction 2. International Restructuring and National Contingencies 3. Structural Forces Challenging the European National Telecommunications Regime 4. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the UK: In Care of the Market? 5. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of Telecommunications in the Netherlands: In Pursuit of a New Consensus? 6. The Liberalisation, Privatisation and Regulatory Reform of French Telecommunications: Still in Care of the State? 7. A Comparative Institutional Analysis of British, Dutch and French Telecommunications Policy 8. Convergence and/or Divergence in European Telecommunications Restructuring?

Interconnection and the Internet - Selected Papers From the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (Paperback):... Interconnection and the Internet - Selected Papers From the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (Paperback)
Gregory L. Rosston, David Waterman
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Federal Communications Commission's Local Competition Order are just two examples of the continuing monumental and far-reaching changes occurring throughout the telecommunications industry. At the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) -- an annual forum for dialogue among scholars and the policymaking community on a wide range of telecommunications issues -- leading industry and academic researchers presented results of their research and insights in key areas of activity, including:
*interconnection and competition;
*Internet growth and commerce;
*Internet regulation and control; and
*the political economy of telecommunications regulation.
The best of the 1996 TPRC papers are included here, representing the forefront of research in the telecommunications industry. The third in an annual LEA series of volumes based on this important conference, this collection reflects the rapid economic, technological, and social development of telecommunications. It also reflects the current state of research thinking on this issue and provides a foundation for further telecommunications policy analysis.

Wireless - Strategically Liberalizing the Telecommunications Market (Paperback): Brian J.W. Regli Wireless - Strategically Liberalizing the Telecommunications Market (Paperback)
Brian J.W. Regli
R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The revolution of wireless communications has only just begun to transform the telecommunications industry worldwide. This book offers insight into the possible options for corporate strategists and government policymakers as they look to harness the expansion of wireless communications to meet the goals of sustainable telecommunications development. Using a multidisciplinary approach which combines policy research, legal analysis, business economics, and models of sustainability from the environmental sciences, the book compares the development of wireless communications in four countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil.
The comparative analysis points to common themes and opportunities, including:
* breaking down the barriers between wireless and wireline access by changing the regulatory design which constrains service providers;
* targeting the development potential of wireless access through the utilization of new technologies and service models; and
* using wireless access as the basis for full facilities-based competition in both developing and developed world markets.
No other book today offers this broad a context for a discussion of wireless communications and its potential impact on the evolution of the telecommunications industry.

How America Got On-line - Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunication (Paperback): Alan Stone How America Got On-line - Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunication (Paperback)
Alan Stone
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The telecommunications industry is the fastest growing sector of the US economy. This interdisciplinary study of technopolitical economics traces the industry's evolution from the invention of the telephone to the development of hypercommunications. Primary focus is on AT&T and its rivals.

How America Got On-line - Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunication (Hardcover, New): Alan Stone How America Got On-line - Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunication (Hardcover, New)
Alan Stone
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The telecommunications industry is the most dynamic sector of the U.S. economy and a driving force of economic and social change worldwide. In this study of the interplay of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and public policy, the author of Wrong Number: The Breakup of AT&T traces the telecommunication industry's evolution from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of the web. In the process he shows how once discrete communications sectors have converged in a new hypercommunications structure that is reshaping the world economy. In its interdisciplinary reach, the book examines engineering, judicial, legislative, and administrative developments as well as the internal policies and external relations of firms such as AT&T. Finally, and with appropriate caution, the author attempts to assess the probable future impact of telecommunications on public life.

International Strategies in Telecommunications - Models and Applications (Hardcover): Anders Pehrsson International Strategies in Telecommunications - Models and Applications (Hardcover)
Anders Pehrsson
R4,486 Discovery Miles 44 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dealing primarily with the telecommunications industry, this text applies the strategic states model to international business strategies of industrial companies. It provides: a broad description of the telecommunications industry; details of an in-depth study of the telecommunications group Ericsson, including their developments in major markets such as Germany, the USA and Japan; and a description of how the strategic states model has worked for Ericsson and other companies. The strategic states model enables us to describe the current state and strategic development of any company or organizational unit. Using this method a company can scrutinize its alternatives and better understand its position and the possibilities for the future.

Telecommunications and the City - Electronic Spaces, Urban Places (Paperback): Steve Graham, Simon Marvin Telecommunications and the City - Electronic Spaces, Urban Places (Paperback)
Steve Graham, Simon Marvin
R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management.
Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications impinge on the economic, social, physical, enviromental and institutional development of cities are illustrated by using boxed extracts and wide range of case study examples from Europe, Japan and North America.
Rejecting the extremes of optimism and pessimism in current hype about cities and telecommunications, Telecommunications and the City offers a sophisticated new perspective through which city-telecommunications relations can be understood.

Telecommunications Research Resources - An Annotated Guide (Hardcover): James K Bracken, Christopher H. Sterling Telecommunications Research Resources - An Annotated Guide (Hardcover)
James K Bracken, Christopher H. Sterling
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the telecommunication and information field expands and becomes more varied, so do publications about these technologies and industries. This book is a first attempt to provide a general guide to that wealth of English-language publications -- both books and periodicals -- on all aspects of telecommunication. It is a comprehensive, evaluative sourcebook for telecommunications research in the United States that brings together a topically-arranged, cross-referenced, and indexed volume in one place. The information provided is only available by consulting a succession of different directories, guides, bibliographies, yearbooks, and other resources.
On the one hand, it is a directory that describes in detail the major entities that comprise the American telecommunication research infrastructure including federal and state government offices and agencies, and private, public, and corporate research institutions. On the other hand, it is a bibliography that identifies and assesses the most important and useful reference and critical resources about U.S. telecommunication history, technology, industry and economics, social applications and impacts, plus policy, law and regulations, and role in the global telecommunication marketplace. No existing guide covers all of these aspects in the depth and detail of this volume.

Telecommunications Politics - Ownership and Control of the information Highway in Developing Countries (Hardcover): Bella Mody,... Telecommunications Politics - Ownership and Control of the information Highway in Developing Countries (Hardcover)
Bella Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, Joe Straubhaar
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together scholars and policymakers to address the issue of telecommunications policy in developing countries. It elaborates on the position that economics and technology determine the framework for discussion, but politics makes the decision. Politics, in this case, refers to the dynamics of the power structure generated by the historical and contemporary context of state, social, economic, and cultural forces. The chapter authors address the system of information transportation -- the telecommunications sector in developing countries ranging from low-income countries with overburdened, rural roads in south Asia and Africa trying to catch up to digitalized fibre-optic superhighways in middle income countries such as Singapore.
The organization of the book reflects a contextually situated intellectual viewpoint. The first part presents a historical and conceptual introduction to changes in the organization of telecommunications. The second part analyzes the major external and internal forces that have influenced the process of private sector participation in telecommunications. The third part offers ten comparative country case studies that provide evidence of the diverse conditions, goals, and processes of the realignment of public and private tasks in the telecommunications industry. Finally, contributors address the issue of regulation from differing positions -- a pragmatic, "how-to-cope" discussion for developing country decision makers.
The diverse perspectives in this volume should provide help to developing countries in their struggle with proposals received from international banks, private investors, interested "big powers," and their consulting firms.

Quality and Reliability of Telecommunications Infrastructure (Hardcover): William H. Lehr Quality and Reliability of Telecommunications Infrastructure (Hardcover)
William H. Lehr
R3,922 Discovery Miles 39 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the last decade, the technology, regulation, and industry structure of our information infrastructure (telephone services, cable and broadcast television, and myriad new data and information services) have changed dramatically. Since the break-up of AT&T's Bell System monopoly, telephone services in the United States are no longer purchased from a single firm. Advances in fiber optics, wireless communications and software-controlled switching are changing how communication services are provided. As the global economy grows more dependent on a hybrid mix of interconnected networks, public officials in the US and abroad are relinquishing control of the market. All of these changes are affecting the quality and reliability of the telecommunications infrastructure, but informed discussions of the public policy and economic issues are scarce. Deregulation and increased competition have lowered prices, but have service quality and reliability suffered? Do advanced network technologies which make it possible to offer a dizzying array of new services increase vulnerability to system-wide failures? Who should or is likely to bear the costs of increased -- or decreased -- service quality?
This volume tackles the economic and public policy issues raised by these difficult questions for an audience of industry executives, scholars, and policymakers. Leading scholars and analysts examine such issues as the effects of network ownership on incentives to invest in quality improvements and/or strategies for quality-differentiated pricing in tomorrow's broadband, integrated networks. They analyze the quality of current telecommunications networks and the impact of re-regulation on cable television quality. The contributions range from new microeconomic theory to new empirical research.
As such, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the public debate on network quality and reliability. It will be useful both as an introduction to newcomers and as a resource for more experienced researchers. As regulatory, industry and national barriers to integrated communications fall, these issues are likely to become even more important. The research presented here provides a solid foundation for further discussion.

Remote Working - Linking people and organizations (Hardcover): David Nickson, Suzy Siddons Remote Working - Linking people and organizations (Hardcover)
David Nickson, Suzy Siddons
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As more people choose to work from home, the challenges for both the home worker and traditional management increase. Many questions arise regarding how to appraise the remote worker, the logistics of home working, and productivity. The authors focus on developing the right skills to cope with this new environment and stress the importance of knowing what the homeworker needs. Other issues addressed are finding the right balance between the office, home and client sites, dealing with the creation of workable home office environment, and technological and legal issues.

The People's Right To Know - Media, Democracy, and the Information Highway (Paperback): Frederick Williams, John V. Pavlik The People's Right To Know - Media, Democracy, and the Information Highway (Paperback)
Frederick Williams, John V. Pavlik
R1,184 Discovery Miles 11 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This important volume presents the pros and cons of a national service that will meet the information needs and wants of all people. In the preface, Everette E. Dennis, Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, asks, "What will a true information highway -- where most citizens enjoy a wide range of information services on demand -- do to local communities, government, and business entities, other units of society and democracy itself?"
It is no longer a question of whether a vastly expanded "information highway" will be built in America. Telephone and cable companies have already inaugurated their plans, and government will most likely incorporate such plans into the economic development policy of the late 1990s. The key questions remaining are: Who will pay for it? and Whom exactly will it serve? "The People's Right to Know" suggests that serving the everyday citizen should be the main objective of any national initiatives in this area. It counsels that evolving electronic services are new communications media that should be deployed with a main focus on the public's needs, interests, and desires.
If advances in the nation's public telephone network will make information services as easy to use as ordinary voice calls, or newspapers promise vast new electronic services awaiting their readers, more attention must also be devoted to the information needs and wants of everyday citizens. In our increasingly multicultural and technology-driven society, enormous inequities exist across America's socioeconomic classes regarding access to information critical to everyday life. If an information highway is to be effective, we need to ensure that all Americans have access to it; its design must start with the everyday citizen. This powerful new medium at our disposal must consider policy that includes attempts to close the information gap among our citizens. It must ensure equal access to data regarding job, education, and health information services; legal information on such topics as immigration; and transactional services that offer assistance on such routine but time-consuming tasks as renewing a driver's license or registering to vote.
Media and telecommunications professionals, communication scholars, and policymakers, including two former chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission, provide insights and pointed commentary on the nature and shape of an information highway designed as a new public medium aimed at serving a wide range of public needs. Their work should improve our basis for deciding if there are means by which an enhanced public telecommunications network can benefit the everyday working American.

The American Postal Network, 1792-1914 (Hardcover): Richard R. John The American Postal Network, 1792-1914 (Hardcover)
Richard R. John
R12,065 Discovery Miles 120 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).

Document Delivery Services - Contrasting Views (Hardcover): Linda S. Katz, Robin Kinder Document Delivery Services - Contrasting Views (Hardcover)
Linda S. Katz, Robin Kinder
R2,581 Discovery Miles 25 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons! In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you'll visit four university library systems to discover the considerations and challenges each library faced in bringing document delivery to its clientele. This book examines the questions about document delivery that are most pressing in the profession of library science. Despite their own unique experiences, you'll find common practices among all fourincluding planning, implementation of service, and evaluation of either user satisfaction and/or vendor performance. This book reviews the planning and process of implementing document delivery in: Miami University University of Colorado at Denver University of Montana at Missoula Purdue University Libraries Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views addresses the paradigm of access versus acquisition and shows you how document delivery can be more integral in the library right alongside full-text databases, Internet access, and reference services. This book focuses on the issues that develop specifically in academic libraries, such as the invisible user majority of undergraduate students when considering budget issues and collection development. This book also explores the dynamic relationship between faculty and library administration that can impact events such as serials cancellations, alternative access to materials, and the reorganization of libraries to incorporate enhanced services to users. You'll find useful information and proven methods concerning these topics: re-engineering library services restructuring a traditional Interlibrary Loan Department into an Information Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Department (ID/ILL) criteria for document delivery vendor selection delivering electronic tables of contents and search strategy outputs to faculty desktops document delivery in academic fee-based information services With Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, document delivery becomes more than a simple acquisitions tool or a necessary service; instead it is an enhanced access service that lends greater perspective to library staff and users alike. This handy volume will help expand the role of document delivery services in your own library setting.

Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management - A Guide to Address Formats and Data in 194 Countries (Hardcover, New Ed): Graham... Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management - A Guide to Address Formats and Data in 194 Countries (Hardcover, New Ed)
Graham Rhind
R6,321 Discovery Miles 63 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Which part of this Asian address is the street? What is this accent and is it correct? Which one of these numbers is the postcode? In which language should I be corresponding? How do I salute this person? In which order should I output this name? For every individual entered on to a world-wide address database, these questions, and others, need to be answered accurately and correctly. This one-stop reference work covering 194 countries will enable you to have the most accurate international marketing database around - one that makes optimal use of the direct marketing activity generated in your company and ensures that your post is delivered to the correct destination and recipient. Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management provides, for each country, such information as address and postcode formats, postbox names, salutations, personal name patterns, information about languages, diacritical marks, job titles, casing rules, street types and much more. It will make the management and development of any marketing database more efficient, less expensive and will result in fewer errors and, most importantly, will present the best first impression of the company to its potential customers. No other book can claim to offer such a comprehensive source of essential information for any manager of an international database, from data quality, direct marketers, market researchers through to telemarketing managers.

A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts (Hardcover, New Ed): Philip Beale A History of the Post in England from the Romans to the Stuarts (Hardcover, New Ed)
Philip Beale
R3,321 Discovery Miles 33 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From Roman times until this century the business of government has been largely carried out by the writing of letters, either in the form of instructions or of authorisations to deliver information orally. These documents were addressed to the recipient and authenticated by a seal or signature, often having a greeting and a personal conclusion. The messengers who took them also carried copies of laws and regulations, summonses to courts and whatever else was needed for the administration of the country. Without a means of speedy delivery to all concerned there could be no effective government. Separate postal services developed to meet the needs of nobles, the church, merchants, towns and the public. This book discusses three meanings of the word 'post': the letters, those who carried them, and the means of distribution. It shows that there is some continuity from Roman times and that the postal service established throughout England after the conquest of 1066 continued until 1635 when it was officially extended to the public, thus starting its amalgamation with the other services.

Law And Regulation Of Common Carriers In The Communications Industry (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Daniel L. Brenner Law And Regulation Of Common Carriers In The Communications Industry (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Daniel L. Brenner
R1,375 Discovery Miles 13 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This revised casebook-plus-commentary offers a basic introduction to the traditional regulation of telephone companies as well as the new lines of businesses they have entered. Drawing on historical and contemporary court decisions as well as on FCC and legislative materials, Brenner documents and evaluates the past twenty years of regulation of the telecommunications industry. In particular, he traces the major regulatory changes from the time of AT&T's single-firm dominance to the increasingly competitive marketplace of today. The law and literature necessary to understand the development and trends in telecommunications are voluminous and, up until now, have been difficult to locate in one place. This book presents the critical concepts and shifts in communications policy coherently and concisely. In this revised and expanded edition, Brenner provides excerpts and comments upon the key decisions in the field, ordering them in a readily accessible manner. He assumes no specialized background in technology, law, or economics. Brenner provides an ideal introduction to this increasingly important field for professionals as well as for scholars and students interested in communications and communications policy.

Trans-European Telecommunication Networks - The Challenges for Industrial Policy (Hardcover, New): Colin Turner Trans-European Telecommunication Networks - The Challenges for Industrial Policy (Hardcover, New)
Colin Turner
R4,498 Discovery Miles 44 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The provision of advanced telecommunication networks is increasingly pivotal in determining an economy's perfomance. This study examines the importance of these networks within the EU and questions their role in promoting economic regeneration and renewal in Europe. Examining the nature of telecommunication networks and the rationale for the development of trans-European networks, the study explores the features networks need to exhibit if they are to complement the broad themes of Europe's industrial policy, and demonstrated the economic importance of advanced telecommunications to business. The final chapters of the volume offer an analysis of the technology associated with the three chosen priorities of the EU in the development of advanced telecommunication infrastructure: the Integrated Digital Network (ISDN); and the development of telematic network; the development of broadband networks.

Monopoly Mail - Privatizing the United States Postal Service (Paperback): Douglas Adie Monopoly Mail - Privatizing the United States Postal Service (Paperback)
Douglas Adie
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First class postage rates have risen from six cents in 1971 to 25 cents in 1988. This rapid increase might be justifiable if service had improved commen-surately, but in fact postal service has steadily deteriorated. The Postal Service concedes that it takes ten percent longer to deliver a first class letter than it did in the 1960s, and one recent postmaster general admits that delivery may have been more reliable in the 1920s. In this volume, Adie reviews the failures of the U.S. Postal Service--an inability to innovate, soaring labor costs, huge deficits, chronic inefficiency, and declining service standards. He blames most of these problems on the postal service's monopoly status. Competition produces efficiency and innovation; monopoly breeds inefficiency, high costs and stagnation.

He also examines the experiences of other countries and other industries that may be valuable in prescribing reform for the postal service. The breakup of AT&T provides lessons that may be applied to postal reform. The long-run effects of deregulation on the airline industry are also examined. Since the postal service has serious union problems, Adie looks at the air traffic controllers' strike and other evidence on pay and labor relations in government unions. Finally, Adie examines the experiences of Canada and Great Britain with privatization of government companies. He then offers a comprehensive--and controversial--reform plan for the U.S. Postal Service, with no further monopoly privileges or taxpayer subsidies. He argues that private companies should be free to compete with the Postal Service, and it, in turn, should be free to compete in all phases of the communications business. Without privatization and deregulation, the Postal Service is doomed to continuing inefficiency, rising costs, worsening labor relations, and an increasing loss of customers to more innovative and efficient service providers. Competition would give the Postal Service a chance to enter the 21st century as a modern, efficient company. It would also give American consumers a chance to have the kind of mail service that a modern economy demands.

Network - Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications (Paperback): Clay Spinuzzi Network - Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications (Paperback)
Clay Spinuzzi
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How does a telecommunications company function when its right hand often doesn't know what its left hand is doing? How do rapidly expanding, interdisciplinary organizations hold together and perform their knowledge work? In this book, Clay Spinuzzi draws on two warring theories of work activity - activity theory and actor-network theory - to examine the networks of activity that make a telecommunications company work and thrive. In doing so, Spinuzzi calls a truce between the two theories, bringing them to the negotiating table to parley about work. Specifically, about net work: the coordinative work that connects, coordinates, and stabilizes polycontextual work activities. To develop this uneasy dialogue, Spinuzzi examines the texts, trades, and technologies at play at Telecorp, both historically and empirically. Drawing on both theories, Spinuzzi provides new insights into how net work actually works and how our theories and research methods can be extended to better understand it.

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