Title:	Telecommunications in Africa
Authors:	Eli M., Noam
Keywords:	Telecommunication—Africa.
Issue Date:	1999
Publisher:	Oxford
Description:	Africa comprises 20 percent of the world's land mass and contains 12 percent of its population. But it accounts for only 2 percent of the world's telecommunications. While telephone penetration in the United States in 1994 was almost 65 main lines per 100 population and 47 for all OECD countries,1 it was 1.5 in Africa (see Table I.I). In 1994, only one African country had more than 5 main lines per 100. Almost 40 percent of Africa's telephone lines were concentrated in a single country, South Africa. The other sub-Saharan countries that account for 80 percent of the continent's population were served by only 10 percent of its phone lines. That region of 600 million people had fewer phones than Manhattan south of 59th Street. In the entire continent of Africa there were fewer phone lines than in New York State.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6560
ISBN:	0-19-510201-0
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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