COMCEC Transport and Communications
Outlook 2019
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As technologies like telegraph, telephone, radio and television have created unprecedented
communication opportunities when they were invented, Internet has deeply affected the ways
people communicate.
Internet usage has been rapidly increasing throughout the world. Governments try to develop
fixed and mobile internet infrastructures and increase internet usage rates in their countries.
However, distribution of both supply of and demand for internet are not evenly distributed
across and within countries. Telecommunication section of the Outlook summarizes the
developments about telecommunications in the world and OIC countries by representing data
on telephone and internet penetration rates.