00812nam a2200097Ia 450000500170000010000170001724500850003426000090011952005670012858300190069520260716043343.0 aDEANE, James aTelecommunications : development and the market : the promises and the problems. c1997 aClaims that telecommunications in the modern global economy offer a new dawn of economic opportunity for developing countries. Stresses the need to harness market forces to suit national interests. Warns that liberalization, far from heralding a new era of cheaper, more accessible communications, could foreshadow the emergence of a handful of monolithic, unaccountable, multi-sectoral communications transnational Big Brothers who will control the bulk of communications traffic from telecoms to television, and a shift in resources from the poor to the rich. c3/7/00kM2LMGR