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2. The Services Transformation and IT Network Regulation
- Author:
- John Zysman and Kenji Erik Kushida
- Publication Date:
- 06-2008
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
- Abstract:
- There is currently a fundamental transformation of services, a transformation central to the growth of productivity and competition in the global economy. This transformation, a response to commodification generated by decomposition of production and intensified competition in global markets, is driven by developments in IT tools, the uses they are being put to, and the networks they run on. The service transformation is changing how firms add value, affecting the underlying economic activity in countries around the world.
- Topic:
- Government and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- Japan and South Korea
3. The Political Economies of Wireless in Japan and South Korea: The Politics of Standard-Setting and Liberalization
- Author:
- Kenji Erik Kushida
- Publication Date:
- 08-2007
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
- Abstract:
- The wireless telecommunications markets of Japan and South Korea both developed rapidly, offering extremely sophisticated and advanced wireless services. Yet, their fortunes in international markets diverged significantly, with Japanese firms retreating from relative success in the 1980s to become virtual non-players, while Korean firms stormed into global handset markets since the late 1990s.
- Topic:
- Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- Japan, Asia, and South Korea
4. When Innovators and Not Implementers: The Political Economies of VoIP in Japan and the United States
- Author:
- Kenji Erik Kushida and Masayuki Ogata
- Publication Date:
- 10-2007
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
- Abstract:
- The spread of Two puzzles immediately present themselves when one examines the spread of "Voice over IP" (VoIP, or IP telephony), a technology that sends voice signals as data, which can travel across the Internet.The first is that, despite the technology's widely hailed potential to undermine the core businesses of incumbent telephone operators by circumventing their traditional telephone networks, incumbent operators do not seem to be in imminent danger. When VoIP made headlines in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a dramatically cheaper alternative to conventional telephones, many predicted that new VoIP service providers would seriously threaten, if not cause the sudden demise of, incumbents. Yet, instead of telephone-replacement VoIP services, it was Skype, the online-based service more reliant on one party calling from a computer, which grew rapidly to take center stage. Why did VoIP as a substitute for conventional telephony, despite being hailed as a potentially "disruptive" technology, not have a catastrophic and relatively immediate disruptive effect on incumbent carriers' business models?
- Topic:
- Political Economy and Science and Technology
- Political Geography:
- United States, Japan, and Asia