Telecommunications Technologies and Opportunities for Developing Countries (NOT KNOWN IF PUBLISHED BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)

This paper discusses the potential for developing countries to leapfrog in the development of their telecommunications infrastructure by exploiting some of the emerging as well as existing telecommunications technologies. It concludes that the telecommunications system for a developing country could benefit from the use of ISDN as its architecture, cellular radio as the access technology, microwave, and possibly satellite, as the trunking technology for intra-country and regional traffic, and satellite for other international traffic.