Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:17:55 -0500
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From: Bram Dov Abramson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Hold the phone
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> >From: Miranda Mowbray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > Half the world's population have never made or received a telephone
> > call - Kofi Annan, Davos, 28 January 2001
>From: Phil Graham <[log in to unmask]>
>
>In any case, those statistics were first noted in the UNESCO world
>report for 1998 from data gathered between 1995-1996.
>Obviously no progress has been made since. Makes me wonder
>whether it is an apology or an admonition on Annan's part.
It's more of a circulating meme. Statistics don't really matter much here;
teledensity in Africa and Asia is way below the point where a bit of growth
would change make the glass fuller than empty.
Main lines grew at a compound annual rate of 5.5 percent between 1995 and
1998; for low income and lower middle income economies, this was 14.9 and
15.2 percent growth, respectively.
(The numbers cited in a UNESCO report would have come from the ITU, as do
the ones I reproduce here. ITU staff gather the numbers from various
member administrations, regulators, and PTTs.)
cheers
Bram
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