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Why does the world need Village Telcos?

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Why does the world need Village Telcos?

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Communications infrastructure is evolving from being a convenient tool of the comparatively wealthy to an essential ingredient in economic growth for rich and poor alike. While around the world, telecommunications infrastructure is steadily becoming less expensive and more ubiquitous, access to telecommunications is least available and most expensive for the poor in developing countries. The reason for this is two-fold. On the one hand, telecommunications operators in developing countries have focused their investment on markets that will provided a high rate of return. Poor communities are low down on the list for the deployment of infrastructure. Equally, developing countries telecommunications markets are characterised by a lack of effective competition resulting in high communications costs. These means that even when the poor are technologically included, they are often still economically excluded from making full effective use of telecommunications access. Tradition telecommunica

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