Download or read book How America Got On line written by Alan Stone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Telecommunications Politics written by Bella Mody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 h
Download or read book Telecommunications and Politics written by Andrew Davies and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the twenty-first century, the telephone network will be transformed into a high-speed telecommunications infrastructure carrying information of every description - voice, data, words, colour images, high-definition television, manufacturing designs - in the digital form recognised by computers. This technological revolution is connected to a shift from mass production to a system of flexible production, in which far-flung corporate activities are being integrated into digital networks of information and control." "The outcome of the telecommunications revolution is being decided by a political contest between two powerful interest groups. National coalitions of established telephone interests are trying to defend the traditional monopoly, and a new transnational alliance of electronics companies and corporate users is seeking to open up telecommunications to competition." "From the perspective of comparative political economy, Telecommunications and Politics claims that an understanding of the conditions which led to the rise of national telephone monopolies in the past helps to recognise the variety of political options in the present. It argues for a middle way between monopoly and competition: a decentralised alternative consisting of regional companies interconnected with independent long-distance carriers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Making of Telecommunications Policy written by Dick Olufs and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Telecommunications Policy examines the history, politics, and impact of telecommunications policy. Beginning with a comparison of several alternate views of the future, Olufs explains how government action makes the widespread use of some new technologies more likely than others. He details the challenges that rapid advances in communications technologies pose for policymaking institutions and considers the ways that government responds to the ideological, economic, and political interests of industry, private advocacy groups, and individuals. Olufs discussed the recent trend toward deregulation and provides a full analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, including the politics of its enactment and its long-term implications for both industry and the daily lives of citizens.
Download or read book Reconvergence written by Dwayne Roy Winseck and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 1998 with total page 2448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text challenges recent thoughts about digitalization, media convergence and information highways. It shows that telecommunications networks have always served as platforms for a broad array of content.
Download or read book The Politics of Telecommunications Regulation The States and the Divestiture of AT T written by Jeffrey E. Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992. This text is a work from a series entitled ' Bureaucracies, Public Administration and Public Policy. The Politics of Telecommunication regulation: The States and the Divestiture of AT&T is an example of high-quality policy analysis conducted at state level. It substitutes for simple theories of public policy more complex and interesting explanations and relies on massive and time-consuming data-gathering that gives careful attention to measurement issues, providing a sophisticated empirical analysis to evaluate the utility of public policy theories.
Download or read book Information Technologies and Global Politics written by James N. Rosenau and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how information technologies may be shifting power and authority away from the state.
Download or read book Network Nation written by Richard R. John and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telegraph and the telephone were the first electrical communications networks to become hallmarks of modernity. Yet they were not initially expected to achieve universal accessibility. In this pioneering history of their evolution, Richard R. John demonstrates how access to these networks was determined not only by technological imperatives and economic incentives but also by political decision making at the federal, state, and municipal levels. In the decades between the Civil War and the First World War, Western Union and the Bell System emerged as the dominant providers for the telegraph and telephone. Both operated networks that were products not only of technology and economics but also of a distinctive political economy. Western Union arose in an antimonopolistic political economy that glorified equal rights and vilified special privilege. The Bell System flourished in a progressive political economy that idealized public utility and disparaged unnecessary waste. The popularization of the telegraph and the telephone was opposed by business lobbies that were intent on perpetuating specialty services. In fact, it wasnÕt until 1900 that the civic ideal of mass access trumped the elitist ideal of exclusivity in shaping the commercialization of the telephone. The telegraph did not become widely accessible until 1910, sixty-five years after the first fee-for-service telegraph line opened in 1845. Network Nation places the history of telecommunications within the broader context of American politics, business, and discourse. This engrossing and provocative book persuades us of the critical role of political economy in the development of new technologies and their implementation.
Download or read book The International Politics of Telecommunications written by David E. S. Blatherwick and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Privatizing the Economy written by Raymond M. Duch and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on privatization and on the reasons for the failures of state ownership.
Download or read book The Invisible Weapon written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics, tools for rival interests, and weapons of war. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Headrick illuminates the political aspects of information technology, showing how in both World Wars, the use of radio led to a shadowy war of disinformation, cryptography, and communications intelligence, with decisive consequences.
Download or read book The Politics of Telecommunications written by Mark Thatcher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confronts some of the most important questions related to liberalization, regulation, and the role of the nation state in an increasingly international economy. In the face of powerful transitional pressures for change, to what extent are states able to maintain stable institutional frameworks? Do different domestic structures generate dissimilar patterns of policy-making and economic performance? How important are past institutional choices to subsequent reform? The author addresses these questions through a study of the transformations of a strategic economic sector, telecommunications, in Britain and France over the past three decades. It analyses the theoretical strengths and weaknesses of various models of public policy formation and, the role and reform of national institutions and the continuing role of the nation state.
Download or read book Politics of Telecommunications Reform in Japan written by Hidetaka Yoshimatsu and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the development of the policy debate over reform of the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in order to examine how the process of regulatory reform is shaped in Japan" -- p.1.
Download or read book Telecommunications in Turmoil written by Gerald R. Faulhaber and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Markets and Government Regulation in Telecommunications written by Kirsten Rodine-Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the surprising ways in which globalization has led to the spread of liberal reforms in the telecommunications sector around the world. This book argues that international organizations, rather than just markets, structure this diffusion of policy innovation by providing information, sharing policy standards, and developing regulatory networks. The book aims to disaggregate the concept of globalization using econometric analysis and controlled case comparisons, and shows how governments play a critical role in allowing the spread of exciting new technologies and access to the broader world.
Download or read book The Politics Of International Telecommunications Regulation written by James G Savage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the international telecommunication union and its role in the politics of international telecommunications. It focuses on the key areas of frequency spectrum allocation, the avoidance of deliberate interference, and the setting of international telecommunications standards.
Download or read book The Politics of Telecommunications Policy in Mexico written by Michael Heller and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
