Technical and Policy Advances in Rural Telecommunications

Telecommunications policy in Pakistan

The telecommunications in Pakistan is currently going through a period of transition as technological advances and liberalization of the industry move the industry into position to compete in an increasingly competitive world and regional environment. This paper surveys these developments with emphasis on the policies initiated by the government in recent years. In particular, attention is give...

Rural Telecommunications Bibliography

Essays in Telecommunications Policy and Management

This work comprises three independent essays in Telecommunications Policy and Management. In the first study we focus on the deployment of green field next generation access network infrastructures when the national regulatory authority has the power to define geographical markets at sub-national level for which it can apply differentiated regulatory remedies Geographically Segmented Regulation...

Rural Telecommunications in Iran: a Hybrid Solution

The necessity of the development of ICT in rural areas has become a major issue in the developing countries for some time now. Iran, one of the participants of this movement, plans to take some significant short-term steps in this field, steps which will revolve the situation of it’s rural ICT extensively. One of the main related issues in Iran is the large number of geographical situations pre...

Telecommunications Policy and the Pleasure Principle

Most serious discussion of telecommunications policy is governed by a utilitarian framework in which the success of communications networks is measured by some criterion of productivity. This exclusive emphasis creates undesirable rigidities in large communications systems upon which industrialized societies are so dependent. An analysis of productivity constraints on the social flexibility of ...