This paper first suggests a revision on the definition of telecommunications transformation strategies in literature, and then uses it to investigate China’s experiences of telecommunications reform by drawing on structuration theory. The authors conclude that a strategy of telecommunications market transformation must be formed based on the economic and political environment, telecommunication...

48 Implementation of the Communication Network for the Multi-Agent Robotic Systems; Ruslan Kirichek, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russia Alexander Paramonov, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russia Andrei Vladyko, The Bonch-Bruevich State University of Telecommunications, St. Petersburg, Russia Evgeny Boriso...

The development of a telecommunications infrastructure is underway in both the developing and developed nations. The challenges of the development of a national telecommunications infrastructure for developing economies differ significantly from the developed economies. This study provides an analysis of the telecommunications infrastructure development process in Thailand. It does this by exam...

T HE U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS sector is going through a significant change. A number of factors contribute and define this change. The first is the rapid technological change in key inputs of telecommunications and computer-based services and in complementary goods, which have dramatically reduced the costs of traditional telecommunications services and have made many new services available at r...

Eradicating poverty is perhaps the single most important global development challenge. As rural areas are typically home to the majority of the poor in developing countries, the success of poverty alleviation interventions in rural areas will be important in determining if this challenge is met. This paper examines the relationship between telecom reform and poverty alleviation in Kenya, docume...

Advances in telecommunications and information technology have allowed the proliferation of mobile and multifunctional devices and their incorporation more and more into physical objects, making new information and services available. A consequent problem of this new scenario is information overload, i.e. users face vast and distributed information sources, and have difficulty in selecting thos...

The future of mobile telecommunications is aimed at creating a usercentric wireless world which takes into account user’s preferences, as well as communication context (e.g., network and terminal heterogeneity or user location). In order to enable context-aware personalization of communication services offered by next-generation mobile networks, we propose an agentbased approach in combination ...

The latest volume in the Progress in Communication Sciences series is a welcome reminder that telephone technology—the backbone of the contemporary new media infrastructure—deserves far more attention in media research.1 In the introduction, editors Harmeet Sawhney and George Barnett lay out the ambitious goal of creating a sequel to Ithiel Pool’s seminal 1977 collection, The Social Impact of t...