00859nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000010000170001724500850003426000090011952005670012858300190069594200060071499900170072020260716043343.0  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  cA  c45487d45487