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- From: MCMANGPH@NUSVM.BITNET (Ang Peng Hwa)
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- Subject: US Losing Lead in Telecom - USC Report
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 05:47:47 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 19, Message 3 of 10
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- This report is from UPI:
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- Los Angeles -- America's traditional lead in telecommunications is
- eroding very rapidly as other nations promote new technologies,
- according to a study released Wednesday.
-
- "The potential of new information communication technologies and
- services is widely appreciated around the world and many nations are
- making aggressive steps to promote their deployment," said the
- University of Southern California study.
-
- The study, produced by the USC's Center for Telecommunications
- Management and covering 24 nations, found that the US lagged in a
- number of key technologies compared with other nations, such as
- converting analog networks to more efficient digital networks and
- investment.
-
- It said digitalization of the US network stood at just over 50 percent
- at the end of 1991, which ranks ninth of 18 reporting countries, while
- US investment in public network infrastructure was 12th among the 18
- countries. It also said other nations were retiring used equipment
- much faster than the US.
-
- "While a number of other nations have dramatically increased their
- capital investment in infrastructure, US investment is flat or
- declining," it said. "Furthermore, depreciation trends in the US show
- a shocking pattern."
-
- The study added: "During this remarkable period of rapid technological
- progress and obsolescence, asset lives for public network equipment of
- local exchange companies have actually increased in the US. Nations
- like Japan, the United Kingdom, Singapore and others write off and
- replace equipment twice as fast as most US carriers."
-