Impact Of Access To Telecoms

Singapore -
Population 4,608,16
Telephones - main lines in use: 1.859 million
Telephones - mobile cellular: 5.619 million
Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 17, shortwave 2
Internet country code: .sg
Internet hosts: 954,475
Internet users:3.105 million

Central African Republic -
Population 4,444,330
Telephones - main lines in use: 12,000
Telephones - mobile cellular: 130,000
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1
Internet Country Code: .cf
Internet hosts: 15
Internet users: 13,000

Costa Rica -
Population 4,195,914
Telephones - main lines in use: 1.437 million
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1.503 million
Radio broadcast stations:AM 65, FM 51, shortwave 19
Internet country code: .cr
Internet hosts: 13,792
Internet users: 1.5 million

United Kingdom -
Population 60,943,912
Telephones - main lines in use: 33.682 million
Telephones - mobile cellular: 71.992 million
Radio broadcast stations: AM 219, FM 431, shortwave 3
Internet country code: .co.uk
Internet hosts: 5.118 million
Internet users: 40.2 million

Angola -
Population 12,531,357
Telephones - main lines in use: 98,200
Telephones - mobile cellular: 3.307 million
Radio broadcast stations: AM 21, FM 6, shortwave 7
Internet country code: .ao
Internet hosts: 3,337
Internet users: 100,000

This information has been sourced from the CIA world factbook. After researching the Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Singapore and the UK, I needed to choose another 'under-served' country for comparison. I chose Angola as I know that it is a LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country) which should mean that it is under-served in its access to telecoms. This shows as although it has almost 3 times the amount of population that Singapore has, the amount of main telephone lines in use in Singapore is almost double that of Angola. Amazingly, in the Central African Republic there are only 15 internet hosts. In a country that is populated by 4.4 million people, this is pretty poor.