Telecommunications and geography
In the modern world, telecommunications play a dominant role in economic and social interaction. Their unique ability to compress time and distance may seem to have undercut the importance of geography, yet paradoxically a geographical perspective is necessary to appreciate their true impact and rol...
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| 520 | 3 | |a In the modern world, telecommunications play a dominant role in economic and social interaction. Their unique ability to compress time and distance may seem to have undercut the importance of geography, yet paradoxically a geographical perspective is necessary to appreciate their true impact and role. In this innovative book, the first to treat telecommunications as geographical phenomena, Professor Kellerman has filled a vital gap in the literature and has produced a tour de force of integration and synthesis, bringing together a vast literature in a satisfying and stimulating framework. He examines the geography of telecommunications at four scales, the urban (or local), the regional, national and the global and demonstrates how their levels interact and vary. He begins by reviewing the history of telecommunications and the present technological capabilities, particularly the integration of the telephone, the computer and TV | |
| 520 | |a He then outlines the concept and processes of telecommunications geography, explaining in detail the geographical dimensions of the topic in each of the three scales. Broad in conception, original and thought provoking in structure and rich in example and illustration, this book opens up an important new field for urban economic and human geography and will be widely read | ||
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| adam_text | TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND
GEOGRAPHY
AHARON KELLERMAN
Belhaven Press
London and New York
Copublished in the Americas by Halsted Press, an imprint of
John Wiley amp; Sons, Inc , New York
Contents
List of figures xi
List of tables xiii
Preface xv
PART 1: GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPTS FOR
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Chapter 1
Introduction: Telecommunications, Information, and
Geography 3
Telecommunications: meanings and significance 3
Telecommunications and computers 4
Telecommunications, services, and information
economies/societies 6
Telecommunications and service economies 6
Telecommunications and information economies 9
The geography of telecommunications 12
Early developments in the geography of
telecommunications 13
Basic notions for the geography of telecommunications IS
Conclusion 18
Chapter 2
Telecommunications as Material Entity and
Spatial Artefact 20
Transmission media 20
The development of telecommunications 21
Recent trends in the telecommunications industry 26
viii Contents
Sociospatial characteristics and impacts of
telecommunications
Networks
Cable networks
Microwave and satellite communications
Maritime cables
Nodes
Smart buildings
Teleports
Telecottages
Conclusion
Chapter 3
Spatial Dynamics of Telecommunications
Flows
Information types
Flow characteristics
Flow barriers
Flow-induced patterns
The diffusion and penetration of telecommunications
innovations
The diffusion process
Comparative diffusion trends
The telephone
The fax (facsimile)
Home computers
Cable television
Telecommunications versus transportation:
substitutability and complementarity
Telecommuting
Teleshopping
Business calls
Teleconferencing
Conclusion: The telecommunications cycle
PART 2: TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS
Chapter 4
Telecommunications and Cities 93
Spatial concentration or dispersion? 94
The antipolitan approach 95
Contents ix
Balanced views on the wired city 96
The global urban system ^ 97
General concepts 98
The global urban hierarchy 98
The development of the system 106
The location of producer services 111
Office suburbanization 111
CBD specialization 113
Transfer to other cities 114
Conclusion 115
Chapter 5
Telecommunications and Regional Development 116
The role and context of telecommunications in regional
development 116
The role of telecommunications 117
Telecommunications and interregional inequality 118
Economic sectors 120
Manufacturing 121
Services 121
Patterns and problems in selected regions 123
Less favoured regions (LFRs) in Europe 124
Rural America - 125
Less developed countries (LDCs) 128
Conclusion 129
Chapter 6
National Differences in Telecommunications 130
The global distribution of telephones 130
The big gap ; 130
Teledensities 131
National economic development and telecommunications 134
The correlation between measures of development and
teledensities 135
The role of telecommunications in national economic
development 138
From natural monopoly to full competition 139
Organizational and ownership patterns for
telecommunications services 140
The emergence of organizational and ownership patterns 144
Growth implications of the organizational transitions
in telecommunications services 148
x Contents
Geographical implications of changing ownership
patterns
Conclusion
Chapter 7
International Telecommunications
Basic dimensions of international telecommunications
The importance of international telecommunications
Movement aspects of international telecommunications
The regulation of international telecommunications
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
International accounting for telecommunications
Public traffic: patterns and factors
The dominance of world cores
Cultural patterns
Colonial imprints
International telecommunications and other international
movements
Dedicated international networks
Transborder data flows (TBDF)
Transnational corporations (TNCs) and banks
Offshore back offices
Electronic mail networks
Conclusion
Chapter 8
Conclusion
Telecommunications, concentration and dispersion
American leadership in telecommunications
Directions for a geographical theory of telecommunications
Telecommunications and geography: future scenarios
References
Glossary
Index
List of figures
1 1 Telecommunications in information and service
contexts 6
1 2 The evolution of service economies 8
1 3 Percentage contribution of economic sectors to US
national income 1950-80 11
1 4 Telephone convergence between New York and San
Francisco: (a) time-space convergence; (b) cost-
space convergence 16
1 5 Approaches to the geography of
telecommunications 18
2 1 Sociospatial impacts of telecommunications 31
2 2 Basic topologies for spatial networks of telephone
systems 37
2 3 Major telephone links in France, 1984 39
2 4 The allocation of the geostationary orbit for C-
band satellites, 1992 42
2 5 The allocation of the geostationary orbit for Ku-
band satellites, 1992 44
2 6 Existing and planned maritime cables, 1988 49
2 7 Fibre-optics maritime cables, 1992 50
2 8 Estimated capacity of transoceanic cable and
satellite systems 1986-96 52
2 9 Major teleports, 1986 56
2 10 Telecottages in Scandinavia, 1988 57
3 1 Dimensions of information flows through
telecommunications 62
3 2 The ratio of toll to local calls in the US (toll = 1),
1900-87 65
xii List of figures
3 3 The average lengths of incoming and outgoing
US international phone calls, 1964-89 67
3 4 US Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs),
3 5 Growth of the AT amp;T toll system, 1890-1904 78
3 6 Sales of facsimile machines and telexes in
Europe, 1984-92 79
3 7 Annual sales of personal computers in the US,
1976-91 81
3 8 Subscribers for cable television in the US,
1964-90 82
3 9 The telecommunications cycle 87
4 1 Telecommunications and business services in an
urban context 107
4 2 Major centres of foreign bank offices in the US,
5 1 Telecommunications and regional development 118
6 1 European teledensities by the number of main
lines per 100 inhabitants, 1990 134
6 2 Regression between per capita GNP and
teledensities for selected countries, 1990 137
6 3 Waiting applications for telephone lines and new
installations in Israel, 1984-91 149
6 4 International comparisons of telecommunications
traffic and real revenue growth, 1983-88 150
7 1 Dimensions of international telecommunications 154
7 2 The role of international telecommunications in
the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, August
7 3 World zones for country first dial digit 164
7 4 The shares of the five leading industrial nations
in US outgoing international telephones calls,
1961-90 173
7 5 The shares of four world regions in US
outgoing international telephone calls to countries
ranked 6-15, 1961- 90 174
7 6 The EARN network (25 April 1988) 185
List of tables
1 1 Percentage information occupations in the labour
force of selected OECD countries 1951-81 11
2 1 Major innovations and developments in
telecommunications 1837-1988 22
2 2 Time-lags between invention and implementation of
telecommunications innovations 23
2 3 Time-lags between innovation of
telecommunications devices and technology
integration 23
2 4 Phases of telecommunications infrastructure 24
2 5 Communications satellites, 1990 46
3 1 US household penetration of major
telecommunications technologies 1990 76
4 1 The shares of New York, London, and Tokyo in
global capital markets (in %) 102
4 2 The shares of leading capital markets in the
movements of people, commodities, and
information (in %) 103
5 1 The role of telecommunications in regional
development 117
5 2 The percentage distribution of population and
telephones in urban and rural areas 128
6 1 Teledensities by the number of main lines per 100
inhabitants 1990 132
6 2 Various ownership options for telecommunications
services 142
7 1 Types and characteristics of international
movements 158
xiv List of tables
7 2 The three most frequently called countries for
selected nations 1977-87 170
7 3 The ranks and shares of G7 countries in phone
calls made from G7 countries in 1986 171
7 4 The shares of the 15 most frequently called
countries from the US 1990 (in % by number of
calls) 175
8 1 Major geographical impacts of telecommunications 193
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