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Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access

April, 2015

Just as the steam engine was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, broadband Internet is today seen as critical to the transition to knowledge-intensive economies across the world. As a general purpose technology, broadband Internet is considered as a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, releasing the innovative potential and energy of previously disenfranchised members of the population. Many of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) now recognize that broadband Internet is crucial to their efforts to reduce poverty and create... Read More

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In Middle East and N. Africa, the broadband gap is gaping

New report cites lack of competition, challenges to affordability. Unleashing dark fiber may help. Image by World Bank                     Lack of effective competition and lack of appropriate regulation are two serious impediments to wider broadband availability and adoption in Africa and the Arab world, write the authors of this February 2014 report published by The World Bank. Download Broadband Networks in MENA: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access... Read More