The latest issue of our journal, the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, is now available on the TelSoc website at https://telsoc.org/journal/jtde-v13-n3.  Please have a look at it.  You can download the full issue (towards the bottom of the issue page) or select individual articles.  All content is free to TelSoc financial members (when logged in).

The September issue includes a proposal by Anjikumar & Chakravarth for a lightweight encryption framework for remote healthcare, blending elliptic curve cryptography with grasshopper optimisation to slash latency and energy use. Banda & Feukeu employ qualitative case studies across Sub-Saharan Africa to unpack 5G's disruptive potential. Moya et al. deploy PLS-SEM on 112 Colombian SME surveys, identifying human talent and resources as top predictors of resilience. Dinh et al. validate a bespoke Lightweight Zero-Trust Archhitecture (LZTA), outperforming baselines in throughput and response times under high loads. Navaratna & Saxena expose self-regulation gaps in AI chatbots, advocating for a standard compliance score on app stores and enhanced citizen digital awareness to bridge divides.

Moorhead considers seminal 1981–1982 papers on Telecom Australia's DAS/C rollout for Directory Assistance, juxtaposed with Ian Campbell's commentary revealing deployment delays and union frictions that yielded suboptimal efficiency versus U.S. benchmarks. Complementing this, Leith Campbell's obituary for Dr. Clemens W. Pratt celebrates a 38-year PMG/Telstra career in teletraffic engineering, from theses on congestion to ITC advisory roles.

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