ABSTRACT
A crucial aspect of the urban dominance of telecommunications in the modern, global economy, is the roles that large, metropolitan cities play as the nodes and hubs of private, corporate telematics networks (Valovic, 1993). Private corporate investment in telecommunications rose 400 per cent between 1980 to 1987, from $15 to $75 billion (Mulgan, 1991; 224). The number of such networks doubled in only three years between 1979 and 1982, from 500 to 1,000 (Howells, 1988; 130).
