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Capacity provides a compilation of essential facts, figures and trends on telecommunications in individual countries. The country focus enables easy access to key information on established and emerging markets.
Heading towards privatization?
With a population barely reaching 5.4 million, it may be a surprise to many that Finland is setting a European standard in the race to deploy LTE and achieve one of the highest penetration rates for mobile broadband in the world.
Iraq has been a central player in the conflict that will shape the history of the past decade, receiving widespread international coverage in regards to its political structure, dictatorship, civilians and economy.
“This revolution started online. This revolution started on Facebook. This revolution started in June 2010 when hundreds of thousands of Egyptians started collaborating content.”
South Africa stands somewhere between a developing and highly developed telecoms market; it has a thriving mobile market with healthy competition, a 103.7% wireless penetration rate and trials of LTE which started last year.
Singapore had a good recession. In 2009, the country’s economy was in much the same doldrums as the rest of the developed world. But at the beginning of 2010, its government felt confident enough to withdraw a raft of economic stimulus measures it had put in place a year previously to shield the country’s private and public sectors and preserve jobs.
In February 2011, it came to light that China had overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy behind the US.
Australia has a mature telecoms market with high internet penetration rates, a healthy mobile business and a strong incumbent in Telstra.
Similar to India, Bangladesh has shown promising signs of economic growth and development in the last decade.
Change on the horizon
Canada typifies many mature markets in its level of competition and in its plans to build fibre and roll out next-generation technologies.
Is the death of traditional voice services an industry cliché or genuine reality?