The constitutional reform of telecommunications approved in 2013 offered a historic opportunity to fix and restructure Mexico's anemic telecommunications sector. While the original reform initiative seemed to address key problems at the root of the dysfunctional system, the secondary laws have been widely criticized by public policy experts and human rights advocates. Beyond issues regarding fr...

2 Broadband refers to the transmission via telecommunications of a large volume of data. For example, the FCC (2000) defines advanced telecommunications capability as “infrastructure capable of delivering a speed of 200 kilobits per second (Kbps) in each direction,” while the Commission denominates as “‘high-speed’ those services with over 200 Kbps capability in at least one direction.” Plannin...

The evolution of the telecommunications technology and market also calls for the evolution of the software design paradigms for the open distributed systems. Especially new frameworks for enhanced interoperability support among telecommunication application resources are required in this context, which should be based on a higher degree of understandings among the distributed systems Traditiona...

1 College of Mathematics and Physics, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China 2 Key Laboratory of Network Control & Intelligent Instrument, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400065, China 3 College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China 4 School of Communication and I...

1 College of Mathematics and Physics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, 2 Key Lab of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China, 3 College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, 4 Inst...