NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Thursday, July 21, 2005

TIA, the national U.S. trade association for telecommunications, hosted a Market Development Forum, “The Other 4 Billion: Telecom in Emerging Nations,” at SUPERCOMM? 2005. The session provided insight on the communications infrastructure needs of developing nations, programs designed to help expand access to technology, growth patterns and the impact of regulation on market development. Panelists discussed the opportunities and challenges for low-cost network deployment and offered direction on how to consider key differences between the opportunities facing services providers supporting regions at different levels of development. Read full article here.