Friday, October 05, 2007

growth and decline of afghan media and telecommunication

 The development of telecommunication and media is one of the single largest achievements that could be point at in the last five years. Media and telecommunication are large technical system dealing with the ways in which innovation is behind the rate and direction of system growth. The support of international community got the sector moving. Growth in media and telecommunication systems has to account for the economic drive to realize economies of scale and scope. Which is lacking in other sectors of Afghanistan – e.g. education, health, security, governance… - I am also arguing that the growth in media and telecommunication is coming to a stop because the economy of system is lacking to reduce service and operation costs. By economy of system I mean a framework which accounts far the ways in which growth and economics mix with politics in the development of telecommunications and media. In other words lack of political vision is going to negative affect the economics of telecommunication and media.

 

Media and telecommunication are economies of scale which stem from improvements in the capacity to handle large quantity and volumes to a greater number of subscribers at a lower cost. Economies of scope are derived from using the same plant and equipment to provide a range of telecommunications services at a lower cost than that of providing each service separately, or using same material of an interview for a weekly feature and news clip.

Economy of scale and scope drove development of media and telecommunication, but now that the industries are large and expensive, its essential characteristic of large technical systems to have a mechanism for controlling a system of interrelated components. And that is the political regime with social causes.

 

 

 

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would say the reason that the media/telecommunications sector isn't going forward in Afghanistan is through companies that try to sabotage one another in the young Afghan market, as well as NGOs that undercut fair market prices. How can Afghan businesses compete?

- Walter Orindo, Kabul

Anonymous said...

the internet has negative and positive effects. The Afghan
youths needs to use the positive parts of the internet and exploit it
to their advantage.

The internet, email, and sharing of documents makes communication and
contact with each other easier, and allows one to gain information
about anything.