Telecommunications in Developing Countries

The Challenge from Brazil

Michael Hobday

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032623528
• eBook ISBN: 9781003820598
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Television

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. ‘Schumpeterian Learning’ - A New Approach to Technology Diffusion and the Developing Countries
• Chapter 2. The Impact of Microelectronics on the International Telecommunications Industry
• Chapter 3. Developing Countries: The Potential for Technological Leapfrogging
• Chapter 4. The Expansion of Brazil’s New Communications Infrastructure
• Chapter 5. Technology Diffusion Through Brazilian Research and Development in Digital Telecommunications
• Chapter 6. The Technological Integration of the Multinational Subsidiaries
• Chapter 7. Technological Accumulation and Economic Crisis - The Emergence of a Brazilian Telecommunications Industry
• Conclusions
• Appendix 1
• Bibliographical References
• Index