The telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socioeconomic development for a nation and hence telecom infrastructure is treated as a crucial factor to realize the socio-economic objectives in India. Accordingly, the Department of Telecom has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services.  BSNL is a wholl...

in today's competitiveenvironment, customers are the most important asset to any company. therefore,in order to retain customers, it is essential to understandtheirbehaviour for developing effective strategies. one of the most commonmethods for customer analysis is market segmentation that helps companies todevelop marketing technique by dividing market into several smaller homogeneousgrou...

the telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socioeconomic development for a nation and hence telecom infrastructure is treated as a crucial factor to realize the socio-economic objectives in india. accordingly, the department of telecom has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services.  bsnl is a wholl...

For decades, investigators have made numerous attempts to generate human pancreatic β cell lines that could be used to advance β cell biology, facilitate drug discovery, and provide a pathway to β cell replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes. In this issue of the JCI, Ravassard and colleagues report that this has finally been achieved successfully with a multistep process that led to ...

We describe a light-weight, Java-based framework for SIP servlet 1.1 containers that enables the development of modular, reusable telecom features suitable for integration into converged services. We show how the framework supports interaction between a feature and its external environment and how it facilitates the discovery task in different scenarios. We also discuss how the framework enable...

Auditing revenue assurance information system is a hot topic because of its importance to the telecom operators ant its auditing difficulties. In this paper, first, the scope of the revenue assurance information system of telecom operators is prescribed. Second, it is to advance the IT audit framework of telecom operators based on the COSO and COBIT framework and the method of application audit...

Often, it has been observed that telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth proceed together. While this relationship has been studied in the context of developed (OECD) countries, in this study, we investigate this simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and the economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equation...