Monopoly and competition in British telecommunications: the past, the present and the future

This book is an insider's account of the major developments in the UK's telecommunications industry. The author argues that the present-day British experiment with competing public telecommunications networks is hindering, not helping, competition and the development of information highway...

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1. Verfasser: Harper, John M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Pinter 1997
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Zusammenfassung:This book is an insider's account of the major developments in the UK's telecommunications industry. The author argues that the present-day British experiment with competing public telecommunications networks is hindering, not helping, competition and the development of information highways in the UK. He makes radical proposals for a new telecommunications structure for Britain and the countries of the EU. The volume includes a detailed financial and statistical assessment of Post Office and BT performance up to the present day. It also provides first-hand accounts of the problems of managing a big utility in the stop-go economy of the 1970s, of the increasingly stormy industrial relations record in those years, and of the tortuous story underlying the System X digital exchange development programme.
Beschreibung:XVI, 240 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:1855674556