The accidental accomplishment of Little Smart: understanding the emergence of a working-class ICT

Volume: 9, Issue: 6, Pages: 903 - 923
Published: Dec 1, 2007
Abstract
This article analyzes one of China's most prominent working-class ICTs, Little Smart (xiaolingtong ), an inexpensive wireless technology which offers limited mobility service at the price of a landline. The case analysis examines how the technology works and diffuses, why it could emerge so rapidly amid structural transformations of China's telecom reform and the subsequent co-evolution between market dynamics and state policy at the local,...
Paper Details
Title
The accidental accomplishment of Little Smart: understanding the emergence of a working-class ICT
Published Date
Dec 1, 2007
Volume
9
Issue
6
Pages
903 - 923
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