To: Geof Hollingsworth who wrote (5667 ) 7/23/1998 3:38:00 AM From: pat mudge Respond to
Think you would need to consider Ericsson and Seimens before either BT or T, especially if you are including wireless. itu.int analysys.com analysys.com analysys.com analysys.com analysys.com analysys.com analysys.com cwplc.com search.bt.com bt.com The market in the already telecoms-rich and developed North is growing at a moderate pace, with a focus on innovative use of telecoms. It is the developing South, with its extraordinary plans for communications infrastructure, which is producing some of the really astonishing figures. Developing countries share the World Bank view that telecoms is a prerequisite of development. China, which already has a pager population second only to the US, plans to become the world's biggest telecoms growth market. From a current teledensity base of 2.3 and with a population of 1.2 billion. China aims to more than double the number of telephones to 114 million by 2000 and to 300 million plus by 2030. The plan may be accelerated. The example of the 'Asian Tiger' economies has inspired the whole developing world to renew efforts to go for economic growth. They have demonstrated that the potential for growth which has long been recognized in developing economies, can be realized, sometimes with stunning results. Elsewhere, South America is showing healthy growth, with countries like Chile showing GDP in advance of 8.4% in 1995. In Africa, the picture varies from the optimistic-an average 3.8% growth a year until 2000, according to the World Bank-to the grim, with some countries in a state of persistent collapse. ,/i>bt.com Asia PacificWithin China, the range of development planned is vast, from a projected teledensity of 67.48 in Guangdong in the South by 2000, to less than two in places such as Yunnan in the West. att.com
