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Riordan, Michael. "The end of AT&T: Ma Bell may be gone, but its innovations are everywhere." IEEE Spectrum 42.7 (2005): 46-51. Riordan, Michael. "Universal residential telephone service." Handbook of telecommunications economics 1 (2002): 423-473. online; Temin, Peter, and Louis Galambos. The Fall of the Bell System A Study in Prices and ...
The Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications is an umbrella organization that regulates and promotes the interests of telecommunication companies in Ghana. [1] [2] Kwaku Sakyi-Addo was the Chief executive officer for the first six years of its existence. He resigned in April 2017. [3] The Chamber is headed by Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey [4]
Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to connect to the Internet. [5] With an average household download speed of 5.8 Mbit/s Ghana had the third fastest speed on the African continent and the 110th fastest out of 188 countries worldwide in February 2014. [10] In 2009 the number of Internet users stood at 1.3 million, 93rd in the world. [1]
The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) was established as an implementing agency of the Ministry of Communications, in January 2004, with the formulation of the comprehensive ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy, which seeks to engineer an ICT-led socio-economic development process with the potential to transform Ghana into a middle income, information-rich ...
A blue box device allowed for circumventing these charges by enabling an illicit user, referred to as a "phreaker," to place long-distance calls, without using the network's user facilities, that would be billed to another number or dismissed entirely by the telecom company's billing system as an incomplete call. A number of similar "color ...
Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority Brazil: Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações Brunei: Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry Bosnia and Herzegovina: Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria
The first automatic system was the Bell System's IMTS which became available in 1964, offering automatic dialing to and from the mobile. The " Altai " mobile telephone system launched into experimental service in 1963 in the Soviet Union , becoming fully operational in 1965; the first automatic mobile phone system in Europe.
I'd bet Mother Bell (if that is even a nickname for Bell) comes from the term Ma Bell.. and that the Ma is an abbreviation of Massachusetts where Bell originated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.70.6.102 ( talk ) 02:20, 23 April 2016 (UTC) [ reply ]