World governments have to come up with “coordinated, nationwide approach...
World governments have to come up with “coordinated, nationwide approach to broadband development” similar to handling of railway and electricity networks of the past, UNESCO said Monday. Low- and middle-income nations have seen their gross domestic products grow by 1.38…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
percentage points for every 10-percentage point increase in broadband deployment, UNESCO said. Yet most of the world “struggles with 5 percent penetration or less,” UNESCO said. Emerging and developing countries will most likely favor wireless broadband, the group said. The countries “with the cheapest broadband prices relative to average national monthly income” were Monaco, Macau (China), Liechtenstein, the U.S. and Austria, UNESCO said. UNESCO’s full report can be found at www.broadbandcommission.org/index/html#outcomes.