The telecommunication network is classified by governments as a critical infrastructure which must be protected. It provides text and voice communication, Internet access, and emergency services for mobile subscribers worldwide. Operators set high demands on the availability of the telecommunication products and a common level to mark high availability is 99.999%, or less than five and a half m...

The evolving liberalisation of the European telecommunication markets will result in a growing competition among service and network providers. In such an environment the rapid development and deployment of new telecommunication services take on increasing significance. The use of distributed object-oriented platforms that provide a set of common and generic building blocks for applications hel...

In the past decade most countries have had to face the wave of telecommunication liberalizations that swept across the world. By-and-large, the “pro forma” liberalization program consisted of three elements: deregulation, introduction of competition and privatisation of national operators. Despite claims of developing a telecommunication market with Chinese characteristics, it appeared that som...

The digital divide touches all regions and economies of the world and threatens to slow progress towards the goal of an all-inclusive information society. Policy makers are faced with the divide’s daunting complexity but have a range of policy tools that have proven effective in expanding access throughout the world. Of these tools, regulatory reform has had perhaps the largest impact in both d...

Reconciling Political and Economic Goals in the Net Neutrality Debate Johannes M. Bauer a & Jonathan A. Obar b c a Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media , Michigan State University , East Lansing , Michigan , USA b Faculty of Information , University of Toronto , Toronto , Ontario , Canada c Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law , Michigan State Univers...