There are a lot of high-tech companies and tele-centres to support the growth of ecommerce [in Ireland]. The Irish telecommunications market opens up today as full deregulation finally comes into effect.
Creating LoopCo as a 19th or 20th century style utility would not be helpful," said Professor Cave. Speaking on Monday at the FT World Telecommunications Conference in London, Professor Cave, an influential authority on the telecoms industry, said...
Thomas Hellmann, a professor at Stanford Business School, said in a paper on developing a venture capital industry that the US history "did not involve heavy-handed direct government intervention". A report released last month by the European...
In November, for instance, the Republicans voted to free VoIP from the grasp of busybody state utility commissioners - a prospect that concerned Vonage, along with internet companies worried about states regulating prices and levying onerous taxes.
This left only four commissioners to decide the fate of the merger. This infuriated the two FCC Democratic commissioners, Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, who had expected some conditions to be placed on the merger.
Cochrane has also held a number of prominent academic positions including the UK's first professor for the public understanding of science and technology. Steve Ranger is the editor of silicon.com and has been writing about business and technology...