Telecommunication Organizations Research Articles

The argument for an interim arrangement

The application of an international interim regime for the ocean floor prior to the entry into force of a Law of the Sea Convention would enable timely exploitation of deep sea resources and would help towards the settlement of divergent opinions. The telecommunications organizations Intelsat and Inmarsat provide examples of how this may be successfully achieved.

Technology and structures: Man and machine

The increasing size of the telecommunications machine poses a threat to its flexibility and adaptive capacity. The author examines this problem from the point of view of telecommunication organizations, taking account of the degree of government regulation and methods of raising capital. He offers a critical view of the unwieldiness and inertia in the telecommunication systems.

A Research Design for Studying Communication Climate Within a Organization

Although difficult to assess, communication climate is a variable of much interest to researchers of organizational behavior. The present article describes a unique research design which was successfully implemented in a large telecommunication organization to evaluate the factors most influ ential in affecting communication climate as related to organizational behavior. Discussion focuses on the general applicability and specific advantages o f the questionnaire-interview design.

State of Telecommunications in Developing Countries--An Overview

This paper examines the state of telecommunications in developing countries with special emphasis on telecommunication technology and telephone statistics such as number of telephones, telephone density and demand. First, the notion of a developing world is formulated in terms of social and economic conditions, and its existing telecommunication needs are reviewed. Then the state of telecommunication is portrayed in terms of various international telephone statistics and is compared with those of the industrialized world. Typical government-controlled telecommunication organizations responsible for providing telephone services, associated manpower, and training needs are then discussed. The technology is reviewed from the viewpoint of local capabilities, ancillary industries, and foreign know-how as well as the pricing policy for telecommunication services, based on highly unsatisfied demand. At the end, two aspects of telecommunication in developing countries are explored: 1) the administrative aspect that emphasizes growth and production, and 2) the users aspect that represents a long waiting period, heavy investment, poor voice quality, and inadequate maintenance.

The CCITT studies packet switching as part of public data network development

One main body within the UN affiliated International Telecommunications Organisation is the "Comite consultatif international télégraphique et téléphonique" or the CCITT to the whole of the telecommunications world. This grand committee meet in plenary about every four years to adopt recommendations in the areas of tariffs, operations and technical principles, to ensure and improve international telecommunications services between the many networks of all the countries in the world. The committee also decides the questions to be considered in the following study period. The recommendations of the CCITT has very strong standing internationally, and to a large extent they are being used also as guidelines for national network development. In the field of data transmission the well established cooperation with bodies representing computer users and manufacturers has made it possible to develop widely recognized interface specifications between telecommunications/computing equipment and functions. Between the plenary meetings of the CCITT the detailed work is being carried out in a number of Study Groups. There is one special group for data transmission techniques over the existing telegraph and telephone networks "SG Special A" (they make all the modem specifications), and one younger one for new digital data transmission networks, the "SG VII". Members of these study groupes are the telecommunications administrations and operating companies ("carriers"), manufacturers of equipment and cooperating international organisations. These groups meet once or twice a year.