This is George Pavlou's PhD thesis titled "Telecommunications Management Network: a Novel Approach Towards its Architecture and Realisation Through Object-Oriented Software Platforms". The thesis is available as individual sections by FTP. The filename and content of each section are: 01-abstract.pdf: abstract and acknowledgements 02-contents.pdf: contents, figure and table lists 03-chapter1.pdf: chapter 1 - Introduction 04-chapter2.pdf: chapter 2 - OSI-SM and TMN 05-chapter3.pdf: chapter 3 - Mapping the OSI-SM/TMN Model to O-O Programming Environments 06-chapter4.pdf: chapter 4 - Mapping the OSI-SM/TMN Model to Emerging Distributed Object Frameworks 07-chapter5.pdf: chapter 5 - Summary and Conclusions 08-appendices.pdf: appendices 09-acronyms.pdf: acronyms 10-references.pdf: references