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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Telecommunications Infrastructure"”.
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Corporate telecommunications infrastructure as a service provider for small medium and micro enterprises
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the academic requirement for the Masters in Technology: Entrepreneurship, Durban Insititute of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2003.
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Two Essays on the Distribution of Information Technology Infrastructure in the United States
… backbone information technology in computing and telecommunications. In the first chapter, we present evidence suggesting that the stock of advanced information technology capital, and the access to it, became more equally distributed across the U.S. between the mid 1980s and early 1990s. In the …
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Exploring the Feasibility of a Strategic Alliance Approach to Telecommunications Provision in Rural Municipalities
… for obtaining access to affordable broadband infrastructure and services to meet their economic development, education, and quality of life objectives. Due to the comparatively low potential for return on investment in serving isolated rural communities, the private sector telecommunications …
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SME and NPO readiness for adopting software-as-a-service in developing countries
… both an emerging and a developing country. The telecommunications infrastructure in particular has the qualities of a developing country. This study focuses on small to medium sized organisations, comprising both enterprises and non-profit organisations. Molla and Licker's (2005a) Perceived …
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A plea for time : northern aboriginal peoples advocate for the right to communicate on the information highway
… framework for understanding the importance of infrastructure in determining use and format. Locally, the development of a northern information highway is an important opportunity for northern aboriginal peoples to define how they want to interact with each other, with the rest of Canada and …
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Participant's perceptions of online staff development and learning tools.
… Technology (TCET) funded by the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) designed the Technology Applications Certification Program (TACP). In the TACP, students are offered four graduate level classes which, when combined, meet the standards for the State Board for Educator …
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FROM NATIONAL LINES TO GLOBAL NETWORKS: STRATEGIC COUPLING AND EVOLVING STATE-FIRM DYNAMICS IN SINGAPORE’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
… has expounded upon the locational patterns of telecommunications infrastructure, less attention has been paid to the changing organisation of the industry itself. Mobilising the concept of ‘strategic coupling’ in the global production network (GPN) approach, this thesis addresses this lacuna by …
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Distributed optical-fibre sensors for monitoring mechanical strain and disturbance
… fibre cables, for application in protection of telecommunications infrastructure. Initially, three types of sensor were investigated, however after preliminary experimental and theoretical work it was decided to concentrate on a novel coherent-optical time-domain reflectometer (C-OTDR). …
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The impact of mobile communications infrastructure investment on economic growth in South Africa
Mobile telecommunications networks provide the ability to access the internet and use telephony services, where the infrastructure exists. Because of its mobile nature a customer can always connect to the internet, even when not in the comfort of their home, unlike the case with fixed-line …
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Evaluating the Strategic Intent and Competitive Dynamics of China’s Satellite Communications Constellations
… China’s efforts represent not only a telecommunications infrastructure push but also a broader assertion of technological sovereignty and global influence. This study uses a scenario-based analysis that integrates system throughput analysis and financial forecasting. Three deployment …
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Work 'n' play in the informational city : F2F interaction and emerging work and leisure patterns
… And contrary to popular belief, new telecommunications infrastructure will increase the significance of some cities as important physical meeting places. A host of new network cities have emerged from this new global infrastructure which supports the rapidly growing world of …
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Producer Network Effects for Rural Economic Development: An Investigation into the Economic Development Potential of Information Production as a Firm-Level Effect of Broadband Telecommunications in Rural Areas
Broadband telecommunications infrastructure is considered to be an economic development necessity by a significant number of policymakers and economic development professionals, particularly in rural areas. Across the United States, a considerable amount of money is being invested in the deployment …
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Building China's high-tech telecom equipment industry : a study of strategies in technology acquisition for competitive advantage
… of this thesis specifically focuses on the telecommunications infrastructure equipment industry in China. This sector is an interesting one to study given that some of the leading domestic companies have mostly emphasized developing their own capabilities in product development, rather than …
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Application and evaluation of high speed data transfer for decision support in remote health care.
… marine and offshore scenarios used the existing telecommunications infrastructure to provide an improved telemedical service. Clinical data collection protocols, procedures and medical assessment questionnaires were used to increase the relevant clinical information transfer. Digital and video …
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Intelligent low-complexity widely deployable diagnostic tools for wireless edge device security using machine learning
… lives and are an essential component of the telecommunications infrastructure. Despite significant technological advancements, most wireless networks remain susceptible to radio jamming. Modern stealthy attacks transmit short jamming signals that use little energy (to be more challenging to …
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A study of information needs and uses of the informal sector of Uganda
… of associations for information, under-developed telecommunications infrastructure throughout the country, wrong timing of programmes on radio, low priority given to information in budgets, the publication of newspapers in a few local languages only, and poor marketing of information services. The …
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Scalable Autonomous Network Control using Minimally Informed Agents
… failure risk management in complex network infrastructures while returning tractable results. It does so by proposing methods of decentralised and distributed emergent risk identification and proactive mitigation, where assets, controlled by individual agents, use only limited network …