Convention on Combatting Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions Annex 2. Revised Recommendation of the OECD Council on Combatting Bribery in International Business Transactions Annex 3. Recommendation of the OECD Council on the Tax Deductibility of Bribes to Foreign Public Officials Annex 4. Pricing Structures and Trends Mobile communications is one of the tremendous success stories of the telecommunications industry. 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. Moreover, the potential for using wireless networks as a platform for electronic commerce and increasing infrastructure competition are some of the most promising developments on the communications horizon. If there is a caveat, amidst such a tremendous success story, it is that the very rapid growth of mobile communications has tended to conceal large performance differences across the OECD area. There is an ongoing need to examine performance, however meritorious in national terms, against fast moving international benchmarks. Without such analysis the challenges to mobile communications meeting wider policy goals, in relation to electronic commerce and local infrastructure competition, will remain impervious to critical review.