Reports

Telecoms Infotech Forum (TIF) position paper, January 1999.

Paper presented at the (Mis)Communicating Across Boundaries Conference, 48th Annual Conference of the International Communications Association, Jerusalem, Israel, 20-24 July 1998.

Telecommunications has become one of the anointed ‘pillar industries’ of China’s economic reform program.

Results of 1994, 1996, and 1998 TRP surveys on home computers and networking in Hong Kong.

For Hong Kong, an island-economy dependent upon its competitiveness as a world financial and trading centre, and as an entrepot to China, the challenge of information technologies is particularly intriguing.

Article published in New Technology Quarterly, Q4, 1997.

Paper presented at China Telecoms: Finance, Investment and Regulation IIR Conferences, 5-6 May 1997.

A revised and updated version of a study undertaken August-October 1997 on behalf of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation (HKCPEC).

Hong Kong has become in recent years an important regional information and telecommunications hub.

Analysis of survey results on technology transfers taking place in Hong Kong’s manufacturing of telecommunications components and equipment sector.

Paper presented at the 23rd Pacific Trade and Development Conference, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, 8-11 December 1996.

Paper presenting survey results on the diffusion of computers in homes, as well as on their use for communications beyond the home.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 30 September 1996.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 27 May 1996.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 25 March 1996.

Paper presented at the Banking and Financial Services in Shanghai Workshop, 18 March 1996.

Background briefing paper for the Telecommunications Infotechnology Forum, 4 March 1996.

The issue of interactivity is becoming clouded by advances in technologies and the growth of hybrid systems.

The ending of the Hong Kong Telephone Company’s (HKTC) monopoly on the provision of the domestic public switched telephone network (PSTN) marks a turning point in the history of Hong Kong’s telecommunications. From 1st July four new Fixed Telecommunications Network Services (FTNS) licences came into effect, issued to HKTC, Wharf Holding’s New T&T (Hong Kong) Ltd, Hutchison Communications Ltd and New World Telephone Ltd.

Published in Cheung Y.L and M.H.Sze (eds.), The Chinese University Press, 1995.