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Mobile communications is one of the tremendous success stories of the telecommunications industry. By June 1999, there were 293 million mobile subscribers in the OECD area, or around one mobile phone for every four inhabitants. Current growth continues to exceed most past projections. The benefits wrought by mobility in communications are increasingly evident in terms of both economic and social development. If there is a caveat, amidst such a tremendous success story, it is that the very rapid growth of mobile communications has tended to conceal large performance differences across the OECD area. There is an ongoing need to examine performance against fast moving international benchmarks. Without such analysis the challenges to mobile communications meeting wider policy goals, in relation to electronic commerce and local infrastructure competition, will remain impervious to critical review. In addition, high growth rates have tended to mask some problem areas where there has been insufficient price competition. In many countries, the mobile communications sector has been successfully used to pioneer liberalisation. Nevertheless, it is incumbent on policy makers to continually review regulatory frameworks. This book highlights a number of areas for policy review and decision.

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Le téléphone est aujourd’hui un objet si banal qu’on oublie que son insertion sociale ne s’est pas faite sans heurts. C’est l’histoire de l’introduction du téléphone à Montréal, de 1880 à 1930, que raconte ici Claire Poitras, à partir d’une documentation extrêmement riche. La mise en place du réseau téléphonique a été une aventure complexe à laquelle ont participé d’innombrables acteurs, depuis les industriels qui ont su planifier son développement et intégrer ses perfectionnements techniques, jusqu’aux utilisateurs qui ont dû apprivoiser un nouvel instrument de communication, en passant par les politiques qui ont tenté de réglementer ce nouveau service public, ses tarifs, ses poteaux et ses fils. L’introduction du téléphone correspond au passage d’un noyau urbain compact, qui regroupe encore au milieu du XIXe siècle la plupart des activités manufacturières et artisanales, à une ville « réticulée » en expansion continue, où l’industrie des services occupe désormais une place prépondérante. Claire Poitras expose les compromis sociopolitiques qui ont permis le déploiement du téléphone d’une façon si fulgurante, que, déjà dans les années 1920, il était devenu un accessoire indispensable de la vie moderne.

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