Telecommunication traffic: global disparities and international flows

• Authors: Anastasia Nagirnaya
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

telecommunications; information space; telephone traffic; Internet traffic; international openness.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 24
• Pages: 177-190

Dates

published

2014-06-01

revised

2013-07-17

accepted

2013-07-17

received

2014-02-26

online

2014-11-15

Contributors

author

Anastasia Nagirnaya

• Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geography, 119017, Staromonetniy pereulok 29, Moscow, Russia, phone: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bog-2014-0021