Building Broadband: Strategies and Policies for the Developing World

by Yongsoo Kim, Siddhartha Raja, Tim Kelly

Access to broadband connectivity is a country's passport to the global information society and knowledge economy--the future. However, the adoption and use of broadband technology today remains extremely uneven and threatens to create a new digital divide. At the end of 2009, countries in North America and the European Union accounted for more than 50 percent of the world's 1 billion fixed and mobile broadband subscriptions, but South Asia and Sub-Saharan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821384198
• ISBN13: 9780821384190
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"