Transcription of CHAPTER 12: Information and Communications Technology
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CHAPTER 12: Information and Communications Technology THE SETTING domestic or cross-border terrestrial links and international undersea highways, is recognized Communications in the worldwide as the main catalyst of ICT. development and as enabler of development southern africa Region policies that bene t both corporate and private For Sub-Saharan africa as a whole, there has users. For this reason, broadband network been remarkable growth in Information and projects are especially relevant for the region Communications Technology (ICT) services and form part of the NEPAD agenda in the ICT. in the past decade. Most of the expansion in sector within the southern africa region. ICT services has been in voice services with At the same time, there has been a mobile networks. Fixed line telephone services major push by African leaders to accelerate and access to the Internet have grown more development of the Communications industry. slowly.
In response to the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Transport, Communications, and Meteorology of 1996 that called for member states to create a “harmonized regional telecommunications policy,” the Government adopted a sector reform policy that called for universal access
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