Publisher's Synopsis
The telecommunication industry and services are experiencing tremendous changes due to technical progress and especially, to joint utilization of telecommunication and computers. These changes have a profound impact on society as a whole - the conduct of business, public services and our private lives. The present book completes a set of two volumes devoted to this subject. The first volume (S. Schaff, Editor; Elsevier, 1990) dealt more specifically with the economic and regulatory aspects of telecommunications. The present volume explores those recent achievements which have made telecommunications one of the largest, and fastest-growing economic engines of the nineties.
