A01=Wilson P Dizard Jr
Author_Wilson P Dizard Jr
Baby Bells
Cable Tv Company
Cable Tv Operator
Category=JHB
Common Carriers
Deutsche Telekom
developing world access
digital connectivity
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European Marketing
France Telecom
global communications technology trends
Information Highway
information society
Local Bell Companies
Local Phone Companies
Local Phone Service
MCI
MITI
Mobile Satellite
Mobile Satellite Services
MSF
NBD
network interoperability
Northern Telecom
Organization Of American States
Phone Service
Phone System
privacy regulation
PTT
Telecom Equipment
telecommunications infrastructure
Tv Set
United States
Product details
- ISBN 9780367009670
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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So Paulo, Brazils largest city, has more mobile phones than does Paris. The largest phone system in Kampuchea is cellular. In the next twenty years, within one generation, everyone on earth will be able to place a phone call to anyone else anywhere. This Meganet is a patchwork of networks, big and small, local and global, primitive and high-tech, that fit together because they share compatible technologies. Wilson Dizards Meganet is a report on the progress and setbacks in expanding Meganet resources to everyone on earth. He examines not only the advantages, from toll-free numbers and credit cards, but the downsides, from the potential invasions of privacy to the question of who will and who should control Meganet. Dizard describes the likely players: from the oil and utility companies who own desirable rights-of-way to Silicon Valley to emerging innovators in Chile and Germany.
