Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in developing countries experience great difficulties in the implementation of technologies that provide access to the Internet. These difficulties are due to technical challenges, such as poor telecommunication infrastructure, lack of technological readiness, inadequate technical skills and training, financial barriers, and the like. Oftentimes they require as...

Efforts to keep the broadband Internet a free and open public utility are much in the news. In the context of the Network Society, the authors examine some of the publicly stated arguments and positions being taken in the articulation of “net neutrality” and “open source” practices and principles. The article explores the difficult technical challenges present in maintaining “open access” telec...

This paper examines how telecommunications regulation in Hong Kong and Singapore has evolved since the 1970s and in particular, how the boundaries between the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors have been increasingly blurred as the two cities have responded to technical convergence. By analysing the telecommunications regulation development in Hong Kong and Singapore, this paper argues...

The convergence of telecommunications industry and the Internet are about to alter the existing business models creating an open market, where a large number of independent application/service providers will offer their services to the users through a limited number of network providers. Furthermore, new concepts such as network reconfigurability and service adaptability require new advanced an...

(1) National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Telecommunications Laboratory, 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Street, Zographou 15773, Athens, GREECE Tel: + 30 10 772 14 78, Fax: + 30 10 772 25 34, E-mail: [email protected] (2) Motorola Labs, Paris, FRANCE (3) Motorola Technology Center of Italy, Torino, ITALY (4) Institut National des Telecommunication...

Researchers have cogently presented the technical case for converged telecommunications systems. However, it is not clear how market-based telecommunications providers are embracing this technical argument as they design new telecommunication systems. This paper uses a case study approach to examine market and policy influences on achieving converged networks in a mixed commercial and residenti...

This report shows the technical realisation of the 7 Telecom I+D in Barcelona. Telecom I+D is the main Spanish conference on telecommunications. This year, the Telecom I+D conference took place simultaneously in the Telecommunications Engineering Schools of six Spanish cities: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Sevilla and Pamplona. Tutorials and presentations were given from Madrid and Barce...

In recent years, many security threats have entered into the organizations’ information and changed the  organizational performance resulting in their exorbitant costs. This question is of particular importanceabout government agencies that use information and Internet systems. This issue enabled the top managers of organizations to implement a security system and minimize these costs. Using In...

In this paper a spatial database for telecommunications geographic information system and its applications are presented. This spatial database has been created using methodology established at the Computer Graphic and GIS Lab at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Nis. This database is essential part of telecommunications GIS GeoTT which is intended to input, store, retrieve and show data...