DOCUMENT RESUME IR 018 898 ED 419 488 Wedemeyer, Dan J., Ed.;,Nickelson, Richard, Ed. AUTHOR Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Conference TITLE Proceedings (20th, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 11-14, 1998). Pacific Telecommunications Council, Honolulu, HI. INSTITUTION 1998-00-00 PUB DATE NOTE 860p. Pacific Telecommunications Council, 2454 South Beretania AVAILABLE FROM Street, Suite 302, Honolulu, HI 96826 USA; phone 1-808-941-3789. Collected Works - Proceedings (021) PUB TYPE MF05/PC35 Plus Postage. EDRS PRICE Communications Satellites; Computer Mediated Communication; DESCRIPTORS *Computer Networks; Developing Nations; Distance Education; Electronic Libraries; Foreign Countries; *Information Networks; *Information Services; Information Sources; *Information Technology; Multimedia Materials; Policy Formation; Satellites (Aerospace); Technological Advancement; *Telecommunications; Teleconferencing Digital Technology; *Pacific Region; *United States IDENTIFIERS ABSTRACT This volume comprises the papers presented at the 1998 conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council. This PTC'98 gathering focused on "Coping with Convergence." These 20th anniversary conference proceedings present at least one contribution on 59 countries and territories. The 120 papers in this volume are arranged chronologically, according to date of presentation. Topics covered in the papers include: total quality management; rural telecommunications; information policiesr satellite/wireless communications; global fiber ;optic systems.; national information infrastructure; regulations; universal services;'access and' interconnection; convergence in the workplace;, synciironous Tranbmis'sion (ATM)-based telemedicine; Internet Roaming; cellular mobile phones; deregulations/regulations; information cities; global searching; microwave radio links; service management; cable televisiori and telephony; convergence of industries and services; information futures; competition; virtual . classrooms; privatization; undersea cable developments; distance education; digital video; Internet industries; coding schemes; security; electronic government; voice mail services; and scrambling. Subject, country, and author indexes are included. 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Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. nth hnual Pacific Ielecommunications Conference PIC 11-14 January 1998 Hilton Hawaiian Village Honolulu, Hawaii USA e Proceedings Edited by Dan J. Wedemeyer and Richard Nickelson © Copyright, Pacific Telecommunications Council, 1998 Published by Pacific Telecomunications Council 2454 South Beretania Street, Suite 302 Honolulu, Hawaii 96826-1596 USA 808.941.3789 Tel: 808.944.4874 Fax: [email protected] E -mail: http://www.ptc.org WWW: 4 Foreword Welcome to the Pacific Telecommunications Council's (PTC) 20th anniversary conference! Have you decoded the proceeding's cover "orbit" yet? PTC'98 is set to focus on "Coping with Convergence" For most of us here, what we saw only a few . short years and technical generations ago as the future, is now a day-to-day environmental reality. This environment continues to change and requires that we take on a spectrum of telecommunication learning as a lifelong survival skill. This conference accepts this responsibility seriously in its organization, content, quality and participant-networks dimensions. Just as the way in which PTC is organized, we try to diversify our perspectives; geographically, organizationally and individually at the annual conference. This world-class four-day event facilitates information exchange on such areas as communication and commerce beyond the next decade, the human side of convergence, Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the Asia/Pacific, country mobile communication updates, etc. This year we had more than 350 paper proposals submitted. After a "blind review" of papers conducted by twenty-two (22) PTC members from around the hemisphere, we selected the 120 papers contained in this volume. The "stellar" selections were then fashioned into the conference framework. As editors of these proceedings we offer the following observations about the characteristics of this year's conference papers. First, many represent a focused, state-of-the-art update of some very specific aspect of the telecommunication field from a governmental, industry and/or academic perspective(s). The diversity of topics and the breadth of geographic/ economic/ social/ cultural/ political perspectives, and the strategic importance of selected papers, permits selecting "current interest" paths through the conference. They also allow sampling of new or (e)merging areas of interest. From a utilitarian standpoint, many of the papers address real problems and offer real and innovative solutions as well as setting conditions for research or insights which assist in organizational and govermental oversight or guidance. Of the more than 175 subject index items, the various types of satellites (i.e. LEOs, MEOs, GEOs and DBS applications) rank highest. Paralleling these topics in magnitude are regulatory concerns/foci (i.e. deregulation, privatization, competition, liberalization). Such topics as development issues, multi-media, standards, PCS/cellular/mobile services, education/distance education, e-commerce, and WTO are significant classes of content in PTC'98. These 20th anniversary conference proceedings present at least one contribution on fifty nine (59) countries and territories. Such a diversity of information and personal networking possibilities make the event central to telecommunication development in the hemisphere. The past successes of PTC conferences are due to a large number of professional contributions. Central to all of these successes, however, has been the PTC staff and the annual conference committee. So, as editors of this volume, we want to offer a special mahalo to everyone involved in producing this first-class double-decade anniversary conference and in assisting with these proceedings. Finally, we want to salute the PTC'98 participants who contribute to the high quality content and to the interactional successes of the event. Aloha, Dan J. Wedemeyer Richard Nickelson Honolulu, 1998 iii CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PTC'98 is organized by the Pacific Telecommunications Council, an international non-governmental, non-profit Chris Vonwiller, Telstra Atlas organization. The Council is regional in nature, embracing members from all the countries that play a role in the PTC EXECUTIVE BOARD development of Pacific telecommunications. Its 625 President members from industry, academia and government are Jane N. Hurd, Severance International, Inc. dedicated to promoting the understanding and beneficial use of telecommunications throughout the Pacific Vice President for Conference Activities Hemisphere -North, Central, and South America, East, Diana Sharpe, Dibb Lupton Alsop South and Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Vice President for Education & Seminars Dan J. Wedemeyer, University of Hawaii PTC'98 CONFERENCE STAFF Vice President for External Affairs Hiyoshi Yokogawa, Consultant Executive Director Richard J. Barber Vice President for Media & Communication Karl Rossiter, Television New Zealand Conference Manager and Staff Sharon G. Nakama Vice President for Planning & Finance Misty Bagasol John A. Spence, John A. Spence & Associates Sharon Ashby Pattie Rivera Vice President for Research Lily Von Nam-Jin Cho, Korea Telecom External Affairs Manager and Staff Vice President and Secretary Richard Nickelson Eiji Hayashi, NEC Corporation Chet Beates Puja Borries Vice President and Treasurer Lee Dixson Dennis Niimi, GTE Hawaiian Tel Fiscal Manager and Staff PTC'98 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Linda Ristow Debra Kamealoha Chair Lore lie Sarmiento Robert Walp, GCI Information Systems Manager and Staff Vice Chairs Stephen Harkness Leigh Baker, Oracle Rana Mahoutchi Michael Fleck, Global Vision Satellite Services Mike de Viveiros Darlene Palazzi, Tyco Submarine Systems, Inc. Eitel Rizzoni, NETPLAN Office Staff Jim Savage, GTE Service Corporation Yvonne Yee Committee Members Mutsuya Asano, IBM Japan Terry Curtis, California State University, Chico Gregg Daffner, Consultant George Darby, Teleport Asia Robert Di Meo, Digital Equipment Corporation Paul Gab la, Alcatel Submarine Networks Kate Griffith, lnformatica Susan Irwin, Irwin Communications James Johnson, Intl Telecom Consultant Yasuhiko Kawasumi, Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. Eui Koh, INTELSAT Yasukuni Kotaka, NEC Corporation George Lissandrello, T/I Labs Yasuhiro Ogawa, KDD Submarine Systems John Purchase, Intersys, LLC Jagdish Rao, East-West Alliance Jeffrey Ritter, ECLIPS Edward Slack, Comsat Mobile Communications Jan Wendt, INTELSAT Bruce Willey, MCI International TABLE OF CONTENTS Subject Index M.1.3.3 The Shaping of the Universal Service 74 Country and Region Index Obligation in Telecommunications for a Author Index Competitive Environment: a Review of Policy Change in the United States, Australia and New Zealand Monday, January 12, 1998 Richard Joseph, Deanna Campbell Robinson, Graham Wagner M.1.1.1 Total Quality Management in CTC Mundo 1 M.1.3.4 William H. Neilson Access & Interconnection 85 Trevor Jordan M.1.1.2 Rural Telecommunications: devising a 8 M.1.4.1 contemporary policy framework The Local Dimension in Global Competition 91 Dario M. Goussal, Maria Sandra Udrizar Lezcano John R. Norsworthy, Diana H. Tsai M.1.1.3 M.1.4.2 Promoting Local Loop Competition in Colombia: 17 Cross-Border Telecommunications 101 Policy Challenges and Market Opportunities Investments: The Building Blocks Fabiola Montealegre Glenn S. Gerstell M.1.2.1 M.1.4.3 Satellite/Wireless Communications in Global 29 "Convergence" is Needed in the Workplace; 108 Information Infrastructures Its Lack May Cause Serious Fulvio Ananasso Miscommunications Kazuo Mitamura, Yu Serizawa M.1.2.2 Global EHF Satellite Systems for Delivering Fiber 36 M.1.5.2 Optic Capacity World Wide 112 ATM-Based Telemedicine Trial in Taiwan Larry Bellagamba, Joe Freitag, Peter Stenzel, Eric Lung-Sing Liang, Chain-Chin Yen, Cheng-Sheng Wiswell Lin, Yen-Ting Chen, Min Chen, Rong-Ruey Lee M.1.2.3 M.1.5.3 Latency in Satellite Networks 45 From Radio Relay Links to Telemedicine - 118 Tren Griffin Proposing "The Telecom Aid Activity" Iwato Asahara M.1.2.4 49 Socio-Economic Implications of GMPCS: A Case M.1.5.4 Study of ICO Telemedicine Through Shernet 126 Eun-Ju Kim David Yong Chang Zhao M.1.3.1 M.1.6.1 The National Information Infrastructure in the 58 CDPD Technology and Mobile Computing 132 Asia-Pacific Region Willie W. Lu John V. Langdale M.1.6.2 M.1.32 137 Intelligent Satellite Overlay Networks Enable National Sovereignty and the Regulation of 66 Quick Deployment of Future Internet Services Transnational Information Flow: An Asian John Puetz Perspective Georgette Wang M.1.6.3 Internet Roaming: A Solution for Global 143 Internet Access Jingsha He, Tomohiko Taniguchi 7 M.2.4.2 M.2.1.1 How Developing Countries will Profit from How to Build an Information City: A Case 148 252 Study Of The Hays USA Information City GMPCS Initiative Ming Louie Jay E. Gillette M.2.1.3 Bangladesh Ventures for Cellular Mobile Phone 153 M.2.5.1 Service to Access Village People Electronic Commerce Opportunities for the 260 Fazlur Rahman Telecommunications Industry Richard Keenan M.2.2.1 Development of a Delivery System for Multimedia 158 M.2.5.2 Instruction over the Internet: The Adaptive Native Americans' Options in the Global 262 Multimedia Education Enabler (AMEE) Telecommunications Service Industry T. Craig Montgomerie, Dwayne Harapnuik, Tom Ross Chaney Keenan, Urmil Chugh, Irena Kirek, Hugh Pfoh, Neil Smith, Norman Udey M.2.6.1 Global Personal Roaming - beyond regional 271 M.2.2.2 system boundaries - Inter working Between Telephone Network and 170 Yoshihiko Ito, Masayoshi Ohashi, Fumio Multimedia Communications Network Watanabe Hiroki Yanagawa, Tadashi Enomoto M.2.6.2 M.2.2.3 Seamless Roaming Between IS41-based 279 Solutions for Remote Multimedia Access Using 178 CDMA Cellular Network and GSM-based Network Managed VSAT's and the International Iridium Network ISDN Standard Jungkeum Shin, Jae W. Byun Keith Ramsay M.2.6.3 M.2.2.4 Benefits of using Microwave Radio Links in 285 Multimedia network architecture for supporting Wireless Networks 185 the lifestyle in the twenty-first century Ross Lunan Yasuo Iwami, Yasufumi Nagayama, Masashi Nabeta, Hiroshi Fujimoto Tuesday, January 13, 1998 M.2.3.1 Asian telecom deregulation over the next five 199 T.1.1.1 years: looking to the past to see the future The Market Trend for Cellular Mobile Phones 293 Charles Dodgson and Its Impact on the Life of the Chinese People M.2.3.2 Gui Fang Nian, Yong Chang Zhao A Changing Regulatory Framework for a 207 Changing Telecommunications Landscape T.1.1.2 Abdul Rauf Parker Regulation Policy of Mobile Communications 300 in Korea: Retrospect & Alternatives M.2.3.3 Han-joo Kim, Hong-jae Lee, Jae-keun Lee, Coping with Telecommunications Policy Change 214 Seok-ji Park in Southeast Asia Mark Hukill T.1.1.3 Selection of Modern Telecommunication 306 M.2.3.4 Media and Dynamic Route Guidance System Policy and economic considerations in the 231 for Intelligent Transport System auctioning of spectrum Sung-Soo Kim, Hyoung-Wook Kim Robert K. Yates, Johanne Lemay T.1.2.1 M.2.4.1 Call Origination and Termination Strategies 313 Assessing Knowledge of Telecommunications 241 for Mobile Satellite Systems Development in the Asia-Pacific Region, Rob Frieden 1995-1997 Ryota Ono 8 vi T.1.5.3 T.1.2.2 Mobile Satellite Services: Service Implementation The Millennium Effect: Challenges and 422 328 Opportunities for Telecommunications Will Determine Winners and Losers Carriers Leslie A. Taylor, Betsy Ku lick Negba Weiss-Dolev, Koruthu T. John T.1.2.3 International Agreements and the Roll-out of 334 T. 1.6.2 Hand-held Mobile Satellite Services Creating Competitive Advantage for 426 Telecommunication Operators Using the Joslyn Read Internet for Self Help T.1.2.4 Graeme Crayford Inmarsat: A Shared Vision of the Future 341 George Novel li T.2.1.1 China Telecom Deregulation: Market 436 T.1.3.1 Realities and Future Trends Competition and Convergence in Canadian 346 Hui Pan Telecommunications Laurence J.E. Dunbar T.2.1.2 Opening Up the Telecommunications in Sri 440 T.1.3.2 Lanka - Will it Attract Investment and Reduce Regulating For Convergence - Asian Issues and 355 Waiting List? Conflicts A.D.V.N. Kularatna, Sakina Dhilawala Michael D. Gertler, David Ben Kay, Beth Bunnell, Askandar Samad T.2.1.3 PT. TELKOM Indonesia: The Development and 449 T.1.3.3 Deregulation of National Telecommunications Incumbent's Complaint against Constraints on 365 Sector Competition Edi Witjara, Supriyo Whajoon Cho, Myunja Yang T.2.2.1 T.1.3.4 Electronic Delivery Systems In Instruction 454 Telecom Market Liberalization in Taiwan 373 Bhupendra Singh Lawrence S. Liu T.2.2.2 T.1.4.1 Multimedia Distance Education Experiments 461 TELKOM's Approach to Integrate Service 385 in Japan - Three Site Debate Trial by MPEG2 Management Into Integrated Management System over ATM System - (IMS) to Face a Converging World Gen Hamada, Kuniaki Ebina, Shigeru Endang Susilowati, Adbul Hadi, Ida Bagus Putu Matsumoto, Takahiro Komine, Ryutaro Suzuki, Ariatha Fumito Kubota T.1.4.2 T.2.2.3 Cable TV and Telephony Convergence In Taiwan 391 Virtual Classroom, Virtual Learners 466 William Zarit, Francis Li V. C. Marney-Petix, Roy K. Ng T.1.4.3 T.2.3.1 Regional and Industry Development Through the 399 Social Welfare Consequences of Privatization 471 Convergence of Electricity and in the Telecommunications Industry Telecommunications Industries Seung-doo Choi Terry Charman, Joe Ceccato T.2.3.2 T.1.5.1 The convergence virus: infecting media 479 Enhanced Information and Operator Services for 404 services with telecommunication bugs Developing Countries and Newly Industrialized Mark Armstrong States George J. Lissandrello T.2.3.3 A Canadian Perspective on Global Telecom 484 T.1.5.2 Liberalization; Strategies for a Small Fish in a The Year 2000 Dilemma: Fact or Fiction??? "How 416 Big Pond to Manage One of the Greatest Issues since the Leonard Eichel, Tapio A. Knuutila Ending of the Cold War." Angelo M. Sanchez 9 vii T.2.3.4 T.3.1.4 The WTO Basic Telecommunications Agreement: 570 Multi-Sensor Instrumentation on a Focus 1500 493 Does a Rising Tide Lift Those Without a Boat? Search and Survey System Richard D. Taylor, Meheroo F. Jussawalla Edward Saade, Robert Morton, Gary Parker T.2.4.1 T.3.2.1 Direct Broadcast Satellite Radio System 502 The Asia Pacific Satellite Market After 2000 579 Implementation B S Middleton Robert D. Briskman T.3.2.2 Addressing the Global Evolution in T.2.4.2 586 HF Digital Broadcasting: Progress Using a 513 Telecommunications Services with System Designed by the Voice of America and the Space-based Systems and Technologies Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scott A. Snyder, Eric V. Wallar H. Donald Messer T.3.2.3 T.2.4.3 Crowded Skies - Is There Room For More 595 An Onboard Processing Digital Satellite-to-Radio Satellites Over the Asia-Pacific? 521 Broadcast System David J. Whalen, Chan Yat-hung, Harry Leung S. Joseph Campanella T.3.2.4 Satellite Strategies and Policies: Lessons T.2.4.4 602 Digital Sound BroadcastingAnnounced from the Asia-Pacific Region 528 Implementations Plans in the Pacific Rim Heather E. Hudson James E. Hollansworth T.3.3.1 T.2.5.2 Information, Multimedia and Education: The 614 Creating a Billing and Customer System to Cope Need for an International Content 532 with Convergence of Telecommunications Classification System and Mark-Up Language Services (1997 Research Prize Winner) Christopher Thomas David (Cyri) Jones T.2.5.3 T.3.3.2 Shared Corporate Services - Achieving Savings The Role of Network And Information System 539 627 and Service Excellence (NUSANTARA-21) in Speeding Up Development Of The Implementation Virtual T.J. McKeown, Kenneth C. Malley Campus in Indonesia T.2.5.4 Naswil Idris, John M. Renner Spot Market for Bandwidth 548 Alex Mashinsky, David E. Padilla T.3.3.3 ATM-Based Distance Learning Project in 634 T.2.6.2 Taiwan Satellite Interference Reduction 551 Lung-Sing Liang, Chain-Chin Yen, Cheng-Sheng Harley Shuler, Mark Morgan, Dave Morgan Lin, Sying-Syang Liu, Chun- Hsiung Wang, Tsuey-Wen Tsai T.3.1.1 The Impact of the Changing Telecommunications 556 T.3.3.4 Environment on the Submarine Cable Industry Globalization of Education: Web-based 639 Today Education & Training Using the Internet Mool Singhi, Hansen Long Larry R. Cross, Massimo Fuchs, Jon Blumhardt T.3.1.2 T.3.4.1 Long-Term Corrosion Behaviour of Engineering 560 Digital Video Representation and 645 Materials in Marine Atmospheric Environments Transmission - a Tutorial Bopinder S. Phull and L. Scott Marshall Reed M. Burkhart T.3.1.3 T.3.4.2 New Undersea Cable Developments and Satellite 566 Aloha to the Web 656 Services: Toward Complementary Coexistence in Norman Abramson the 21st Century David Ross, Hansen Long 1 0 viii