Telecom traffic statistics —MiTT matter

An examination of the international telecommunication network

“…It has already been discussed that there are great disparities in telecommunication access between First and Third World countries in the Maitland Commission of the International Telecommunication Union (lTV) in 1984. Telecommunication traffic among those centre countries constitutes more than two thirds of the whole traffic (Staple & Mullins 1989.) The fmdings of this study confirm inequalities in international communication.…”

“…Empirical research has been conducted in various areas of international interaction, including the flow of international trade (Steiber 1979;Breiger 1982;Schott 1986;Smith & Nemeth 19 8 8 ), capital flow, such as foreign debts (Bradshaw 19 91) and investments (ChaseDunn 19 75 ;Wimberley 1990), military intervention (Kick 1983 ), the flow of mail (Deutsch 1956;Clark & Merritt 1977;Merritt & Clark 1987), and telecommunications (Kellerman 1990;Staple & Mullins 1989. ) Deutsch ( 19 79) suggested that the propensities to carry on various social, economic, and political transactions provides strong indicators which demonstrate "the levels of international or intranationl integration which a population [in a given nation] may have reached at some particular time and place" (p.…”

Liberalization of EU telecommunications and trade: theory, gravity equation analysis and policy implications

“…With Internet data traffic, the direction of information diffusion is more difficult to assess. This particularly holds since preferred routings often use the US; even intra-Asian internet traffic is partly routed via the US, as it offers a cheap hub function due to low prices in leased lines and IP services (FCC 2000;Staples and Mullins 1989).…”