Every year I seemingly are caught by surpirse that the PTC annual conference is upon us. This year's edition will be a first--and hopefully a "last"--because of the Covid-19 travel restrictions we all seem to face. The platform is new.
As some know, as a non-profit organization founded more than 40 years ago by academics, PTC continues to feature--unusually--content delivered by researchers. A new focus is to expand the range of knowledge transfer by including, on a regular basis--researchers from other sectors of the industry (consultants, think tanks, research firms). Here is one example.
Join industry leaders from Facebook, Intel Corporation, Stanford University, Verizon, and many more Featured Participants for exhilarating sessions throughout the conference.
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Is Google’s crawler a natural monopoly? A natural monopoly that exists due to the high fixed or start-up costs of conducting a business in a specific industry. Think about electricity firms, natural gas or water and sewer service. So is Google "like" those other examples?
Those of you with long memories (or simply old enough to remember) will recall that telecommunications itself was once deemed to be a natural monopoly. These days, telecom is viewed as an oligopoly, with a few providers possible, but not a "natural monopoly."
That does not mean it is easy to compete with the leaders of the telecom business, just that it is difficult.
And while some argue high fixed costs create an insurmountable barrier to competitors, that same argument was made about telecom competition as well. To be sure, it has not proven easy to avoid an oligopoly in the mass market telecom business. But telecom has proven not be a "natural monopoly."
Some focus on the function of web crawling to make the analogy. Additionally, content creators have financial incentives to restrict the number of web crawlers indexing their content, says the Knuckleheads Club, which has been researching the economics of web content indexing.
This is the sort of thing a prudent economist or advocate looks for: ways to solve a pressing problem without sacrificing economic growth, firm profitability or consumer welfare. If you have ever modeled your own personal carbon footprint, you realize how difficult a task that is, and the sacrifices that--with present technology--must be made to reduce a footprint by just 30 percent.
Long story made short, I found I could only hope to achieve a 30-percent carbon footprint reduction by completely avoiding use of an automobile or flying on airplanes. The former would significantly affect daily life, as I live out in the American West, with lowish density and longish distances.
The latter would severely limit my business functions.
What we need are ways to reduce carbon output without crashing the economy, whole industries and individual firms.
We also cannot tell people to be cold in the winder, hot in the summer and to avoid many conveniences of modern life. Sure, there are spiritual values to be reaped by reducing much of our consumption. But that has to be voluntary: cheerfully undertaken and not experienced as an imposition.
Unless a tier-one telco serving consumers and businesses believes it can grow its business on the basis of connectivity services alone, new services and products beyond core communications must be found.
GSMA Intelligence suggests services beyond the communications core account for between 10 percent and 40 percent of total retail service provider revenues, and just over 20 percent, on average, for many tier-one providers. That is up from 17 percent in 2017, GSMA Intelligence says.
Over the next six months, more than 600 sensor cameras will be deployed in bushfire-affected areas across Australia, monitoring and evaluating the surviving wildlife populations.
This nationwide effort is part of An Eye on Recovery, a camera sensor project run by the World Wide Fund for Nature and Conservation International,.
workers has substantially risen by more than 50 percent to 2.7 million, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve That is the biggest increase since the government began to record these figures in 1990. But the trend has been in place since before 1990.
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