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Article: Shift to the Economic Center of World Telecommunications Calls for Change.
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- March 1, 1984
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World economies are shifting. Once driven by industry, economies are today driven by information.
For the first time in history, the focal point and economic center of the world telecommunications industry is shifting pfrom the Atlantic Basin to the countries that rim the Pacific Basin.
Only 30 years ago, almost no international telecommunications existed between countries in the Pacific, and in the developing countries, domestic telecommunications were just beginning.
The last 10 years have seen an enormous expansion of the Pacific Basin international telecommunications network. The number of telephones has more than doubled from 46 million to ...