Getting a Dial Tone : Telecommunications Liberalisation in Malaysia and the Philippines /

"Ninety-nine percent of Filipinos are waiting for a telephone and the other one percent for a dial tone..." - Lee Kuan Yew, November 1992. A decade after the above quote, far reaching reforms in the telecommunications sector has dramatically changed the situation in both the Philippines an...

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Main Author: Salazar, Lorraine Carlos (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007.
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