| R. Mansell, The New Telecommunications. Sage Pub., London, 1994. |
.... 9 Even though theoretically possible and very appealing to separate user and flow information, this separation (unbundling in the telecommunications jargon) is actually difficult to implement, for reasons relating to the particular strategic interests of the Telecommunications Operators [20, 21]. page 9 developers build to a common abstraction 10 . The common abstraction, a spanning layer now located on top of the transportation (or communication) modes, projects a virtual infrastructure which itself comprises one or more interoperable physical networks. The spanning layer pairs ....
R. Mansell, The New Telecommunications. Sage Pub., London, 1994.
....with the existing technical infrastructure. As a result, technological change is frequently only a local phenomenon and proceeds rather gradually, leaving the incumbent providers significant control over their market environment through the control of engineering parameters of networks (Mansell, 1993). Global technological change is a rare phenomenon, although the current rapid expansion of wireless services may constitute such an example. A complicating point in such an analysis is the fact that Schumpeter did not formulate an explicit theory of welfare. Rather, he had a fundamental trust ....
Mansell, Robin (1993). The new telecommunications. London: Sage Publications.
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