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The regulatory policy choices and entry strategies for entrants in the telecommunications industry are discussed. The asymmetries between the entrants and incumbents and the quality aspects of entrants are analyzed.

The expansion of call centers in Canada is discussed, with focus on the advantages of establishing such centers in Canada where the work force is highly educated and multilingual, and telecommunications are advanced.

Pakistan, a country of 118 million with 1.25 percent telephone penetration, is spending about $200 million in 1993-1994 on imported telecommunications equipment. And, this does not include private investments in [...]

Transport costs in Southern Africa are generally high and can account for as much as 30% to 40% of the total final value of products, according to Economic Integration in [...]

Political changes and new telecommunications policies are encouraging modern wireless technologies to meet the towering and growing demand for communication networks and services in the Eastern European countries. Since the [...]

Kemper Financial Services was shut down by the April 13, 1992 flood that was caused by the Chicago River breaching the underground tunnel system in the city's Loop area. Kemper's disaster recovery plan went into effect and most of the firm's operations, including its main data center, were moved to a back-up hot site in Kansas City. However, the firm's IS and network remained in Chicago but were relocated to a building unaffected by the flood. The IS and network was channel-linked to Kansas City and linked by T1 communications with operations in New York, Los Angeles, and Milwaukee., Like every other firm situated in Chicago's Loop, Kemper Financial Services had to shut down and evacuate its data center on Monday, April 13, 1992, when the Chicago River began [...]

Democratic FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has been pushing to exempt online companies such as Google and Skype from the network neutrality regulations he wants in place to preserve the Internet's [...]

Democracy -- as well as state-of-the-art Internet and cell phone service -- are arriving more or less simultaneously this week to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The big question now […]

Telecoms regulator Oftel praised a pledge this week from BT that the operator was aiming for 100 per cent broadband coverage by 2005. 'BT's announcement to start trigger levels for [...]

More than a year later, the 25 trillion lire question remains: did Deutsche Telekom realise the full extent of what it was getting itself into when it attempted to save [...]

Hauppauge-based Integrated Systems Group, an IT infrastructure architect, announced the launch of a new independent research and development division under the name Emerging Technology Group. Emerging Technology Group will function [...]

Hibernia Atlantic, an American-owned, diverse trans-Atlantic high-bandwidth connectivity provider, announced another important milestone in its Project Express cable build; its deep-sea submarine survey is now under way. A critical step [...]

The Federal Communications Commission ended an already busy week with a quadruple play--approving the $1.3 billion Clear Channel sale, planning to take a look at product integration, granting Tribune its [...]

FCC topper Kevin J. Martin has come up with a plan to allow the $8.2 billion acquisition of Tribune Co. to be completed on sked by year's end, and address [...]

COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS, including Dell, Hewlett Packard, and Microsoft, are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to open a segment of the wireless spectrum to any and all hand-held communication devices. They [...]