Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators

The fifth edition of the ITU’s Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators was prepared for Asia Telecom 2002 (Hong Kong, China, 2-7 December 2002).

World Telecommunication Development Report: Reinventing Telecoms

Launched at the 3rd World Telecommunication Development Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Two years into a new century, the telecommunication sector finds itself at a crossroads. It has changed almost beyond recognition over the last twenty years. The results have been impressive, with the industry growing at an unprecedented pace, especially since the mid-1990s. At a global level, however, the acceleration in telecom growth rates was reversed in 2001. Share prices declined precipitously, and expected profits turned to losses for many of the new market entrants in the sector. Is this the signal of a new, sober environment for telecommunications or just a temporary blip? The Report attempts to answer that question by looking at where the telecommunication sector is, what it has accomplished over the last twenty years, and where it will go over the next few years. The gale of creative destruction currently blowing through the industry will bring misery to some, but opportunity to many more. Above all, for telecommunication users, who will soon form the majority of mankind, a new age is dawning in which scarcity is being replaced by plentiful and ubiquitous supply. That is telecoms reinvented!
Japanese edition shown . Stéphane Rollet designed the cover and Sophie Minges drew the picture.