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Communications technology at the local, metropolitan and wide area levels is improving and, as we have seen in Chapter 1, this is having a major impact on systems solutions in general and on distributed computing in particular. But in order to capitalize on the benefits new technology offers, we need to undertake the re-engineering of business processes — and this demands far greater flexibility and responsiveness from the information systems specialists than has been the case in the past.
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© 1997 Dimitris N. Chorafas
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Chorafas, D.N. (1997). The Impact of Deregulation, Costs and Tariffs on Communications Technology. In: High-Performance Networks, Personal Communications and Mobile Computing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14175-3_2
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