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This volume examines the "new" areas of telecommunications technology, focusing particularly on fixed data communications (including the Internet) and mobile telecommunications (including mobile Internet). A sectoral systems of innovation approach is used as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the telecommunications sector, in terms of equipment, access and content. The authors consider the emergence and expansion of new technologies and explore how the sectoral system of innovation is evolving and how previously independent systems are now converging. In particular, they address the question of equipment production and the provision of intangible service products such as Internet access and content. By addressing the production of both goods and services, they highlight the critical interdependence of service innovations and manufacturing of the specific topics discussed within the book include: the challenges for Europe of fixed data communications; second and third generation mobile telecommunications systems; data communication via satellite and television subsystems; the dynamics and trends of the Internet services industry; and policy implications for the future of the telecommunications sectoral system of innovation.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. The Fixed Internet and Mobile Telecommunications Sectoral System of Innovation: Equipment, Access and Content 2. Fixed Data Communications: Challenges for Europe 3. The Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM): Second Generation 4. The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS): Third Generation 5. Data Communication: Satellite and TV Subsystems 6. The Internet Services Industry: Sectoral Dynamics of Innovation and Production 7. The Internet Services Industry: Country-specific Trends in the UK, Italy and Sweden 8. Policy Implications for the Future of the Sectoral System Abbreviations Index

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'. . . this book is a great reference tool for those involved in telecommunications. The macroeconomic aspects of how different entities affected the development of worldwide standards are addressed as well and make for interesting case studies.' -- Maike van Wijk, Business Information Alert

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'. . . this book is a great reference tool for those involved in telecommunications. The macroeconomic aspects of how different entities affected the development of worldwide standards are addressed as well and make for interesting case studies.'

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