South korea top information societyreport

This is the VOA special English technology report.

Falling prices are feuling growth in high-speed internet services,especially in developing
countries,recently the international telecommunication union released its measuring the
information society 2011 report.the ITU,part of the united nations,compared access,use and skills
in one hundred fifty-two countries.the report says south korea has the worlds most developed
economy in information and communication technology,or ICT.sweden,icelen,Denmark and finlan
were also among the top five in the ICT development index.the index compares two thousand eigh
and two thousand ten scores.saudi Arabia,morocco,Vietnam and Russia hAd some of the biggest
improvements between those years.susan teltscher is head of the ICT data and statistics division at
the union in Switzerland.she says most of the growth has come from one source.mobile broadband
is now leading the growth race among the different ICT indicators much higher than the other key
indicators that we look at,likeregular mobile phone subscriptions,fixed telephone or fixed
broadband.and the good news is that its also starting to arrow in developing countries.mobile
broadband subscriptions reached eight hundred seventy-two million by the end of last year.three
hundred million of those are in developing countries.MS.telts cher says if we can bring internet
over yhe mobile phones,then we can really make a difference in terms of improving internet accesss
also in developing countries.falling prices are adding to the growth,says.especially in the
broadband area,the prisces dropped by over fifty percent between two thousand eight and two
thousand tenwich