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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Universal Service"”.
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Agenda-Setting: The Universal Service Case
… Jones in terms of applicability. Universal service policy and the 1996 Telecommunications Act serve as the test case. Case study methodology guides the dissertation and employs a variety of methods including the quantitative and qualitative techniques used by John Kingdon and by …
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Extending broadband past the urban fringe with wireless mesh : a strategic analysis with policy implications for Kenya's Universal Service Fund
As the competitive wholesale cost of bandwidth continues to plummet in Kenya, last-mile networks have become a bottleneck in the extension of affordable broadband outside major cities. In this work we explore the business case for small-scale wireless mesh networks as a means to implement …
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Understanding the market and access gaps present in South Africas broadband internet sector
… current telecommunications context from a Universal Access and Universal Service point of view and does a market gap and/or access gap remain despite efforts to address such gaps since 1994? If so, how do either or both the market gap and access gap appear in the South African context and …
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) : the dynamics of technology and regulation
… same voice (and often converged voice and data) service, while remaining agnostic to the underlying infrastructure. The VoIP-enabled architectures have very different capabilities and costs from one another. Many do not - or cannot - support social regulations such as emergency 911, wiretapping …
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Simulation Development, Path Planning, and Linear Quadratic Gaussian Precision Landing for Unmanned Traffic Management Operations
… between simulated UAS with UTM and its Universal Service Suppliers (USS). The framework proposed provides extensibility for additions of different USS for testing protocols. This thesis also contributes a hierarchical multi-UAS path-finding algorithm that can be adjusted for different …
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Building markets : the liberalization of the European telecommunications industry
… of the internet and a myriad of new on-line services that crossed borders indiscriminately and were very difficult for governments to control. Calling into question the strong predictions of globalization in the telecom industry, this dissertation explores how differences in national …
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Caught in the web : an analysis of South Africa's response to the emerging global information policy regime
… investment and skills can assist in providing universal service to the majority of South Africa citizens. However, implementation requires a fair market structure, independent regulation and low interconnection charges. Without these important structures in place, this study notes that the goal …
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What is the Value of the Postal Service?
The United States Postal Service (USPS or Postal Service) has a storied history that predates the constitution and founding of America. Through war, economic boom and bust, the industrial revolution, and technological innovation, the USPS has evolved its operations and remains a beacon for …
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Avaliação da implementação do Programa de Atenção à Saúde do Estudante do Instituto Federal da Paraíba
… PASE. It was also concluded that the program as universal service, disregarding economic vulnerability as a criterion of participation as beneficiaries of actions, that PASE competencies are mostly fulfilled, even with insufficient human resources and lack of specific resources for the its …
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I/O-Automata based formal approach to Web Services Choreography
<p><i>Web Services</i> are heterogeneously developed software components invoked over the network viz. the internet. Their main objective is to provide desired outputs in exchange of specified inputs. In the setting of service oriented architecture, Web services play a vital role by allowing …