The OECD Communications Outlook provides an extensive range of indicators for the development of different communications networks and compares performance indicators, such as revenue, investment employment and prices for service throughout the OECD area. By June 1999, there were 293 million mobile subscribers in the OECD area, or around one mobile phone for every four inhabitants.
Current growth continues to exceed most past projections.
The benefits wrought by mobility in communications are increasingly evident in terms of both economic and social development. This study shows that success requires not some silver bullet, but a range of complementary factors that support the innovation-intensive growth exemplified by new information and communication technologies such as the Internet and Internet applications like electronic commerce. This publication is signed to help ensure that consumers are no less protected when shopping on line than they are when they buy from their local store or order from a catalogue. ICTs, E-commerce and the Information Economy IT is significantly affecting the economy, the growth and structure of output, occupations and employment and how people use their time. The OECD Information Technology Outlook 2000 describes the rapid growth in the supply and demand for information technology goods and services and their role in the expanding Internet economy and looks at emerging uses of information technology.