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COMCEC Transport and Communications

Outlook 2016

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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.