Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I The Inflection Point -- 1 The Next Revolution in Global Information and Communication Markets -- 2 The First Two ICT Eras -- 3 Modularity at the Inflection Point -- 4 Modularity and Innovation -- 5 The Political Economy of the Inflection...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and...

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I The Global Governance of Infrastructure -- 2 Sovereign Right and the Dynamics of Power in the ITU -- 3 Balancing Equity and Ef ciency Issues in Global Spectrum Management -- 4 The Peculiar Evolution of 3G Wireless Networks --...