Telecommunications deregulation strategies have been self-evidently different in Hong Kong and China due to differences existing in political and economic systems. This paper will provide an overview of contemporary trends in telecommunications deregulation in these two territories. Comparisons...

Open network architecture (ONA) has been developed as a technological solution to the regulatory problems of a multi-user, multi-operator telecommunications environment. The USA has been the originator of this concept, which may be paradigmatic for similar developments elsewhere such as open...

Albania has an average of only 1.4 telephone lines per 100 people. Yet telecommunications public policy reform is now increasingly viewed by the Albanian policy community as central to the country's future economic and political ambitions. This paper aims to explain how this precarious state of...

The global telecommunications marketplace has witnessed considerable and unprecedented changes in the past 25 years culminating in the transformation of industry structures, market-specific structures and the internal structures of incumbent telecommunications operators. Against this backdrop,...

Benchmarking is an important technique that organisations seek to implement to obtain superior performance. This study focuses on understanding and explaining the problems that confront organisations that implement benchmarking practices. Attention is focused on two aspects of the process that...

Benchmarking is an important technique that organisations seek to implement to obtain superior performance. This study focuses on understanding and explaining the problems that confront organisations that implement benchmarking practices. Attention is focused on two aspects of the process that...

The wind power generation system will play a crucial role for developing the energy conservative, environmentally friendly, and sustainable electric power system in China. However, the intermittency and unpredictability of wind power has been an obstacle to the deployment of wind power...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of a policy debate that has led to a unique 3G licensing scheme in Hong Kong. Key issues to be addressed include the choice of technical standards, allocation of radio spectrum, licensing options and open network requirement. With reference to the case...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of telecommunications liberalisation on the fixed line telecommunications operators' strategy formulation in Hong Kong. The analysis is based on an innovative experimental methodology to measure the level of quality of the major...