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December 2006
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ITU Internet Report 2006
I n t e r n a t i o n a l T e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n U n i o n
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Acknowledgements
The text of this report was prepared by a team of authors from ITU’s Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) led byLara Srivastava, comprising Tim Kelly, Chin Yung Lu and Lucy Yu.The statistical tables were drawn from the ITU Information Society Statistics Database. Kenichi Yamadaassisted with their compilation. The world map of Information Society Statistics was done by Youlia Lozanova.The cover design is by the ITU Publications Production Division. The report has beneted from the input andcomments of many people to whom we owe our thanks. Among others, we would like to thank Liz Hall,Michael Minges, Amardeo Sarma and Robert Shaw. Thanks also go to all those who gave their generouspermission to use material reproduced in the report.We would like to thank the German Federal Network Agency, the Ministry of Internal Aairs andCommunications (MIC), Japan, and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) of the Republic of Korea whose generous support has allowed us to expand our case study and research programme. We wouldalso like to express our gratitude to respondents from public telecommunication operators, internet serviceproviders, regulatory bodies and national administrations who helped by providing specic information anddata related to the development of the relevant technologies in their countries.
Some of the research for this report was carried out under the “New Initiatives Programme”, launched in1999 (www.itu.int/ni). Under this programme, relevant workshops have been held on “The RegulatoryEnvironment for Future Mobile Multimedia Services” on 21-23 June 2006 in Mainz, Germany (www.itu.int/multimobile), “What rules for IP-based Next Generation Networks?”, on 23-24 March in Geneva, Switzerland(www.itu.int/osg/spu/ngn) and “Ubiquitous Network Societies” on 6-8 April 2005 in Geneva (www.itu.int/
ubiquitous).For more information on this reports, including the full text of this edition and statistical highlights, visitwww.itu.int/digitalife. For previous titles in the series, visitwww.itu.int/internetreports.
The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reect the opinions of ITUor its membership.
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