The fourth edition of the World Telecommunication Development Report was prepared to coincide with the World Telecommunication Development Conference in Malta in March 1998. It examines progress towards universal access to communications, reasons for disparities, and policies and technological solutions designed to improve the
The cover picture was drawn by Gl Banu Altinok, 13, of Turkey. It shows the peoples of the world coming together to communicate with a distant planet via the medium of light: a rainbow. The report is concerned with extra-territorial communications or, more precisely, telecom trade. The growing volume of communication between nations and the trade it supports, helps to build peace and interdependence between nations, reflected by the rainbow, an international symbol of peace.
