Problem
Maldistribution of telecommunications facilities within countries
Other Names:
Insufficient telephones in rural communitiesInadequate regional telephone systems
Nature:
In many countries that have expanded their telephone services, concentration has too often focused on development in and between urban centres, overlooking the great need for and advantages to be gained from links between villages, and between rural outposts and the provincial centres. A single community telephone connecting local teachers and health workers to larger administrative centres, farmers with central markets, and local leaders with district officers, would certainly bring important and beneficial change to village life. Nevertheless, there are many more countries which have not expanded sufficiently, or have ignored totally the need for telephone services. They do not belong solely to the group of least developed countries; there are examples even at higher levels of development, such as in socialist countries. Broader Problems:
Inadequacy of national telecommunication facilitiesDisparities in global distribution of communication resources and facilities Narrower Problems:
Maldistribution of radiosInsufficient television systems Strategies:
Improving global communicationsImproving regional telephone systemsProviding telephonesDistributing telecommunications facilities within countriesRestricting telecommunications facilities within countries Subject(s):
Society → CommunitiesAmenities → Rural
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telecommunications
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telephone, telex, telefax
Societal Problems → Imbalances
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
→ Systems
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET