Varun Grover
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Technologies associated with telecommunications and computing are rapidly converging. It is therefore becoming difficult for IS practitioners to ignore telecommunications technologies and important for IS researchers to begin investigating them. This paper identifies a set of representative telecommunications technologies, and reports the results of a study undertaken to assess their usage in American industry. The data identifies technologies that are prominent and innovative as perceived by the executives surveyed.
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- Telecommunications technologies: patterns of usage
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