Here’s a nice short summary of a recent report by the ITU on emerging market take-up of communication services.
There are some interesting items, such as in Bhutan, delivering emails as post. Quite interesting.
I need to get my hands on that report.
Many of the world’s least-developed countries have made "remarkable progress" towards achieving mobile-phone and Internet connectivity goals set out by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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"The mobile sector in [the least-developed countries] has grown considerably and access to the Internet has also increased," the ITU said. The organization plans to release later today a detailed report on telecommunication and Internet connectivity in the world’s poorest countries.
Seems like the ITU also has a few initiatives in emerging markets. Neat.
