
Telecommunications Regulation Handbook
Published in 2010Telecommunications are a means to an end. That end, for The World Bank, is a world free of poverty. We live in a world where, infamously, more Africans have access to a mobile phone than to a plumbed toilet. When I consider today s communications landscape, it is almost unrecognizable compared to the environment in which we developed the first Telecommunications Regulation Handbook ten years ago. I am reminded of the remark by writer William Gibson; The future is here already. It s just unevenly distributed. The future of telecommunications is being written in SMS and IP, and implemented in…
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