All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Call: Fashion Victims in the New Look Telecom Industry

Maria Lohan

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All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Call: Fashion Victims in the New Look Telecom Industry

Maria Lohan

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Abstract

The Telecom industry In Ireland is currently in training to tone itself up in preparation for both convergence and competition In the new look telecommunications Industry. Only those companies who have completed extenslve tummy tucks on staffing and removed the weight of subsidized charging may enter this new telecommunications club. Not only this, but you must of course have the right personality to attract partners with dowries of infrastructure. An important characteristic is a willingness to invest In anything electronic - but property will do too. And what should the fashion conscious Telecom player be sporting this season? Well POTS or Plain Old Telephone Services are definitely passe whilst PANs or Picture and Network Services will take you anywhere you want to go.

Original language	English
Journal	Irish Communications Review
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/d7gb00
Publication status	Published - 1996
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

telecom
consumerism
technology
Ireland

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