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Telecommunication traffic: global disparities and international flows
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Telecommunication traffic: global disparities and international flows

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  • Anastasia Nagirnaya Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography

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https://doi.org/10.1515/bog-2014-0021

Keywords

telecommunications, information space, telephone traffic, Internet traffic, international openness

Abstract

New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have shrunk geographical space and time more than ever. But do people fully use the opportunities provided by the newest ICTs? How intensively do they communicate with each other on the international level? And what are the global disparities in the level of telecommunicativeness and international communicative openness? To answer these questions a study of global telecommunication traffic and the specificity of its spatial organisation has been undertaken based on the official statistics on different types of ICT traffic (postal service, fixed telephone, mobile phone and the Internet) over the last two decades. Indicators in the sphere of telecommunicativeness and international communicative openness are presented. This study expands the understanding of international integration and globalisation processes in their communication aspects.

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2014-06-16

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NAGIRNAYA, Anastasia. Telecommunication traffic: global disparities and international flows. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series. Online. 16 June 2014. No. 24, pp. 177-190. [Accessed 7 July 2025]. DOI 10.1515/bog-2014-0021.
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