The global regulator, in its ‘Connecting Humanity’ study, which assessed requisite investments for the period, noted that of the world’s 7.5 billion population, three billion were lacking basic telephony services.
The survey also examined costs associated with infrastructure, policies, basic digital skills, and local content at both global and regional levels, as well as how to mobilise the “unprecedented” finances to extend networks to unserved communities. It added that assessing affordable universal connectivity was important to any country desirous of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the next decade.
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