Author: Jeffery J. Wheatley
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Keywords: telecommunications, series, iee, economics, world
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $114.00
ISBN-10: 0852969368
ISBN-13: 9780852969366

Telecommunications is becoming an increasingly services and quality led industry. This book introduces the telecommunications manager, engineer, administrator and regulator to the concepts of economics in the context of this rapidly changing field. Taking an international perspective, coverage includes principles of economics and their relationship with engineering and technology; critical trends; telecomms technology; industry economics; telecomms economy; demand; costing; pricing; regulation and performance. With a strategic outlook, this is an essential book for all telecommunications profe

Author: Richard Manterfield
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Keywords: telecommunications, series, signalling, iee
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0852967616
ISBN-13: 9780852967614

Based on the author’s successful previous book, Common-Channel Signalling, this fully revised edition comprehensively covers the principles of contemporary telecoms signaling, from basic architectures through to broadband and internetworking. Includes CCSS7 SCCP and ISDN, mobile signaling, intelligent network signaling, DSS layers 1, 2 and 3 and global virtual network services.Also available:Spread Spectrum in Mobile Communication - ISBN 9780852969359Phase Noise in Signal Sources - ISBN 9780863410260The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world’s leading profess

Author: Ronald A. Cass
Publisher: AEI Press
Keywords: telecommunications, deregulation, studies, aei, international, trade
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 1998-02-25
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0844740713
ISBN-13: 9780844740713

As telecommunications service markets in individual countries have become less regulated and more competitive, telecommunications equipment has developed a global market in which sales for new systems are hotly contested and competition, particularly technology-based competition, is fierce. The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment and whether more efficacious means for addressing any such circumstances exist, apart from trade-related decisions. The authors advise policymakers to take open trade as the baseline

Author: William H. Lehr
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: telecommunications, series, lea, infrastructure, quality, reliability
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0805816100
ISBN-13: 9780805816105

In the last decade, the technology, regulation, and industry structure of our information infrastructure (telephone services, cable and broadcast television, and myriad new data and information services) have changed dramatically. Since the break-up of AT&T’s Bell System monopoly, telephone services in the United States are no longer purchased from a single firm. Advances in fiber optics, wireless communications and software-controlled switching are changing how communication services are provided. As the global economy grows more dependent on a hybrid mix of interconnected networks,

Author: S.C. Strother
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Keywords: telecommunications, library, house, management, cost, artech
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2002-03
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1580531784
ISBN-13: 9781580531788

Here’s a practical cost management guide to the complex world of voice, data and wireless telecommunications for the non-technical business professional. Examining the complex, highly technical telecommunications industry from an insider’s point of view, it sifts through all the technical jargon, offers a comprehensive education on the applications, services and procurement of telecom products, and provides a strategy to effectively manage the costs of those products and services. The book enables you to: understand telecom services; audit phone bills; reduce the cost of existing services

Authors:Xu Yan, Douglas C. Pitt,
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Keywords: telecommunications, library, house, policy, chinese, artech
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $131.00
ISBN-10: 1580533280
ISBN-13: 9781580533287

Based on firsthand information obtained from interviews with senior figures in the Chinese telecommunications industry, this book presents a unique review and analysis of the evolution of Chinese telecommunications policy. It analyses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing new entrants, issues of ownership and interconnection, the broad economic background of 3G licensing, and the significant implications of China s accession to the WTO. These are fully analyzed within the context of the unfolding Chinese regulatory system. This account, utilizing new source data, dem

Author: Brian J.W. Regli
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: telecommunications, lea, series, market, wireless, liberalizing, strategically
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0805825827
ISBN-13: 9780805825824

The revolution of wireless communications has only just begun to transform the telecommunications industry worldwide. This book offers insight into the possible options for corporate strategists and government policymakers as they look to harness the expansion of wireless communications to meet the goals of sustainable telecommunications development. Using a multidisciplinary approach which combines policy research, legal analysis, business economics, and models of sustainability from the environmental sciences, the book compares the development of wireless communications in four countries: th