Telecommunications And The City

Author : Steve Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813937
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telecommunications and the City written by Steve Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Includes case studies from Europe, Japan and North America.

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Author : Steve Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134813929
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telecommunications and the City written by Steve Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jurgen Schmandt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Urban Infrastructure written by Jurgen Schmandt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-07-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, city governments have played an active role in the administration of public works that were necessary to the economic survival of the community. However, a major element of the new urban infrastructure, advanced telecommunications networks, are developing in such a way that the municipal role in its development is minimal. This book presents new information on the rapidly changing configuration of urban telecommunications. The editors examine important planning data illustrating how major metro areas are dealing with new opportunities in telecommumication. They describe the interplay among current stakeholders in this area: public utility commissions, city planners and service providers, state governments, telecommunications users (especially large businesses), and consumer groups. The book provides case studies of major U.S. cities, one Canadian city, a metropolitan area on the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as smaller cities that have positioned themselves for international economic trade whereby telecommunications will play a major role. The contributors find that cities need to be more involved in understanding how telecommunications systems are changing and in planning how they can best exploit new opportunities afforded by these systems. They contend that while telecommunication may not cause economic development, it seems to be a necessary condition for it. The book offers clear illustrations of the extent to which business users depend on communications. The ability of business and government to bypass the local carrier has important implications for the public network and for cities in their use of telecommunication.

Author : Eric Harwit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191607932
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Telecommunications Revolution written by Eric Harwit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace. This book tells how China conducted its remarkable "telecommunications revolution". It examines both corporate and government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party government when citizens get this access, and considers the new opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of the world's fastest growing economies. The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.

Author : Susan Crawford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300167377
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captive Audience written by Susan Crawford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.

Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621502
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competition in Telecommunications written by Jean-Jacques Laffont and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competitionin network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools ofindustrial organization, political economy, and the economics ofincentives.

Author : Eric Harwit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199233748
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Telecommunications Revolution written by Eric Harwit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at China's telecommunications industry this text considers the way Chinese companies and the government acted in concert to put telephones and Internet access in the hands of hundreds of millions in less than 25 years, and looks at the consequences of this telecommunications 'revolution'

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428938397
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telecommunications wirebased competition benefited consumers in selected markets : report to the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James O. Wheeler
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415924412
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities in the Telecommunications Age written by James O. Wheeler and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering insights into the challenges and implications for urban planning in the age of telecommunications, this work assembles recent research on how changes and innovations in the economic system are being fuelled by networks of telecommunicators.