Problem
Parochial telecommunications standards
Other Names:
Non-harmonization of telephone equipment Nature:
Setting electronic, procedural, software and hardware standards at by a nation to protect telecommunications interests from competition. This denies telephone equipment manufactures the economic advantages of producing for an large homogeneous international market. It discourages the development of new international services carried by telephone lines. It makes communications more time-consuming and less efficient for organizations exchanging a lot of data.
Incidence:
Almost every country has its own telephone plug. Even the new small plastic jack-plugs vary from one European country to another. In the UK the plug is just a few millimetres larger than on the continent. In Norway, it is the internal arrangement of the wires that differs.
Broader Problems:
Inadequacy of international standardsResistance to internationally agreed standardsInadequate standardization of procedures and equipment Related Problems:
Non-standardization of electrical equipment Strategies:
Improving global communications Subject(s):
Amenities → EquipmentPolicy-making → Policy
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Research, Standards → Standards
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telecommunications
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telephone, telex, telefax
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST