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ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia : Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks

2007

The increased private investment in telecom in the 1990s dipped as part of the overall downturn following the bursting of the IT bubble, overbidding on 3G (Third generation) mobile and overbuilding of optic fi ber capacity at the turn of the century. [...] The fi rst section of this book, “Demand at the Bottom of the Pyramid” illustrates the existence of demand at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) at levels much higher than expected in terms of expenditure on telecom services. [...] Would the reform advocates have had the clout without the numbers provided by the extensive mobilization and the resources without the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Warnet (Warung Internet) cybercafés? [...] Liberalization The lifting of policy constraints on participation in the provision of connectivity may be described as liberalization, a process that achieved critical mass in 1984 with the AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph Company) divestiture in the United States and the re- forms in the United Kingdom that included the end of the British Telecom (BT) monopoly and the establishment of the Off [...] The wave of reforms that spread across the world since 1984 did not take long to build up momentum, as shown in Figure 4. The Asia-Pacifi c has emerged as the driver of worldwide connectivity expansion, with the East Asian Tigers supplying much of the needed hardware and also reaching saturation in basic services and the world’s two most populous countries, China and India, providing the numbers.
telecommunication policy asia infrastructure (economics)

Authors

Rohan Samarajiva, Ayesha Zainudeen

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
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384.6095
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22
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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9780761936732 9781552503782
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HE8343
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I28 2008eb
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1 electronic text (320 p.)
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Canada
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00603517 (OCoLC)752555247 (CaOOCEL)422136
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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