A tribute to the IGU activities of Professor Henry Bakis

The study of the geography of telecommunications began in the 1970s, accompanying the digitization processes of telephone services, and the organizational changes in their provision. The introduction of the Internet in the mid-1990s, followed by the emergence of smartphones in the late 1990s, has w...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/netcom,
Autors principals: Kellerman, Aharon, Wilson, Mark I.
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Netcom 2018
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:The study of the geography of telecommunications began in the 1970s, accompanying the digitization processes of telephone services, and the organizational changes in their provision. The introduction of the Internet in the mid-1990s, followed by the emergence of smartphones in the late 1990s, has widened the scope of the geographical study of telecommunications, moving its focus first to information society, followed later on to an even wider focus on the global information society, with its...