Postal & Telecommunications Industries

An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure. After September 11, 2001, i...

This book is designed to provide mail centre managers, their supervisors, and an organisation''s security personnel a framework for understanding a...

Commercial satellites are used to provide a variety of fixed satellite services, ranging from consumer satellite television and broadband to milita...

China's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind...

In recent years, liberalization, privatization and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. I...

Commissioned by the General Post Office in 1937, by the time MacDonald Gill completed ''Mail Steamship Routes'' he was already a renowned designer ...

Based on 30 years of development in 30 different countries, this book combines theory, success stories, and a seven-step planning guide to help ind...

The Post Office Railway, when it started running in 1927, was the first fully automated driverless railway in the world, a full forty years before ...

This book adopts an approach of mixed-method research with an in-depth qualitative comparative case study analysis triangulated by a quantitative s...

An invaluable business tool that covers the whole of Britain and Northern Ireland. An essential business tool, this postcode atlas clear...

Telecommunications media include radio, cable, satellite services, multimedia, the Internet, cable TV, telephony, broadcast radio and TV. This book...

If the 20th Century was the American Century, it was also UPS's Century. Joe Allen's The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of ...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

In less than three decades, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It grew to have one of the most recognizable and valuab...

When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all be male. Wages for adult men were too high, so bo...

In 2001, Prime Minister Koizumi Junichir launched a crusade to privatize Japans postal services. The plan was hailed as a necessary structural refo...

Telecommunication has undergone unprecedented change in recent times. Two hundred years ago, Sir Francis Ronalds foresaw its development and imagin...

The Image Archive of the main library at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Bibliothek) is home to a vast collection of photo...