Telecommunications in Developing Countries: The Challenge from Brazil (Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting) - Softcover

Hobday, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032623578 ISBN 13: 9781032623573

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern, micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology activities. Although progress in telecommunications has so far been concentrated in the most advanced regions of the world, some developing countries can bypass older, less efficient forms of telecommunications and go straight to microelectronic technology. This book is the first to examine the challenges and difficulties facing developing countries in this field. extending existing theories of technology transfer and diffusion, Michael Hobday offers an explanation of the forces for change in the telecommunications industry. He then examines Brazil's experience in telecommunications, from developing the technology and building up a modern infrastructure to controlling multinational suppliers of equipment. Dr Hobday explains why Brazil's efforts in this area have succeeded, and offers lessons for other developing countries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032623578
• ISBN 13: 9781032623573
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242