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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 15 Nov 92 12:52:00 EST
- From: TOM GOODDEN <TGOODDEN@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Introduction to a New Subscriber
- Message-ID: <telecom12.849.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 849, Message 11 of 13
- Lines: 43
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- Greetings to all from a newcomer. Some of you saw and were kind
- enough to respond to my first unsucdfessful attempt at an introduction.
-
- I am Tom Goodden, a graduate student pursuing a Doctorate in
- Public Administration (DPA) here at George Mason. My dissertation
- topic is the influence of a nation's political system on its
- telecommunications development. Hudson, Jussawalla, Snow, and many
- others have treated the impact of national economics on
- telecommunications and the reverse. I believe it would be valuable to
- consider looking at political behavior which tends to open or close
- society via telecommunications. I am fortunate to be studying under
- Professors R. Akwule, R.P. Clark, S.M. Lipset, S. Ruth, and L.G.
- White, who have excellent backgrounds in comparative political
- systems.
-
- I have written to each of 213 operating PTT's world-wide
- requesting annual reports, statistical summaries of operations,
- planning documents, and telephone directories of the national capital
- city. Surprisingly, perhaps, over 40 have thus far responded. I have
- also a growing data base of ITU, World Bank, NTIA, and other
- government statistics. I have also extracted from six of the major
- public telecom journals for the last eight years.
-
- As you might guess, the major need is grass roots community level
- data, especially from rural villages and hamlets. I need to know how
- many telephones are in the villages? Who has them? How many calls
- are made per month? For what general purposes, work, family,
- emergency, government assistance? How much do calls cost per minute?
- How reliable is service (call completion rates)? How long are waiting
- periods for telephone installation? Repair?
-
- Some may recognize my queries as essentially based on the work of
- Dean Ahmad Kamal and Professor Ali H. Dessouki, University of Cairo,
- as reported by Indu Singh (1983). If anyone has interest in this
- topic, I invite correspondence and would offer such as I might find on
- U.S. telecommunications in return.
-
-
- I am,
-
- T. Goodden@GMUVAX on BITNET, add gmu.edu for INTERNET. Regards.
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