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IndiaPosted at: Aug 19 2016 2:36PM


Broadband capabilities and access highly concentrated in East, NE Asia: UN ESCAP report

New Delhi, Aug 19 (UNI) Despite the widely reported phenomenal growth in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Asia-Pacific region, a new study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), has found that broadband capabilities and access are highly concentrated in East and North-East Asia.
The report titled State of ICT in Asia and the Pacific 2016: Uncovering the Widening Broadband Divide also confirms the gap between advanced and developing countries in fixed broadband access was indeed widening, and unless targeted policy interventions were put in place, the trend would continue to the detriment of future development opportunities, a statement said here today.
The report, according to the 2015 data, showed 74.89 per cent of total fixed broadband subscriptions in Asia and Pacific are concentrated in East and North-East Asia, followed by South and South-West Asia (9.77 per cent), North and Central Asia (7.68 per cent), South-East Asia (5.74 per cent) and the Pacific (1.93 per cent).
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