Japanese telecommunication reform and the standards-setting process

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 165-176

  Curtis, Terry ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC POLICY; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

VIRTUAL MONOPSONY MARKET;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 0031099747     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0308-5961(96)00076-6     Document Type: Article

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1. http://www.mpt.go.jp/Council/Council-NTT's.html
2. Curtis, T and Oniki, H 'Economic and political factors in telecommunication standards setting in the US and Japan: the case of BISDN' in Pogorel, G (ed.) Global Telecommunication Strategies and Technological Changes North-Holland, Amsterdam (1994)
3. Johnson, C MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA (1982)
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5. http://www.mpt.go.jp/Council/summary4.html, Section 3-2,5.a.1
6. http://www.ntt.jp/ntt/ntV On the NTT home page on the world wide web, under 'NTT Information', NTT's research and development department is said to include the following three laboratory groups and 13 laboratories: Multimedia Systems Laboratory Group, Software Laboratories, Human Interface Laboratories, Information and Communication Systems Laboratories, Telecommunication Networks Laboratory Group, Wireless Systems Laboratories, Optical Network Systems Laboratories, Network Service Systems Laboratories, Access Network Laboratories, Telecommunication Networks Laboratories, Science & Core Technology Laboratory Group, Basic Research Laboratories, Communication Science Laboratories, Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories, Opto-Electronics Laboratories and LSI Laboratories.
7. www.mpt.go.jp/Council/summary4.html, Section 3-2, 5.a.2
8. Harris, RG 'Divestiture and regulatory policies: implications for research, development, and innovation in the US telecommunications industry' Telecommunications Policy 1990 14(4) 105-124
9. Ibid, p. 110
10. Morris-Suzuki, T The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1994)
11. Ibid, pp. 7-8
12. Harris, RG op cit, p. 113
13. Ibid
14. "German Liberalization on Track, Boetsch Says" Telecommunications Reports International August 2, 1996 7(15) 5-7
15. www.mpt.go.jp/Council/summary4.html, Section 3-2, 5.a.2
16. Harris, RG op cit, pp. 113-114