非洲电信业的迅速扩展为信息业的发展开辟了广阔的天地。在过去很长一段时间里,非洲电信业相对落后。1995年,非洲人口占世界人口12%,而电话拥有量仅占世界电话总量的2%。为此,许多非洲国家决心改变这一落后状况。自1996年以来,非洲几乎每月都有一个新的地区性或全国性电信项目开工,电信业营业收入和 The rapid expansion of Africa’s telecommunications industry has opened up a vast world for the development of the information industry. For a long time in the past, the telecommunications industry in Africa was relatively backward. In 1995, Africa accounted for 12% of the world’s population, while the number of phones accounted for only 2% of the world’s total number of phones. To this end, many African countries are determined to change this backward situation. Almost every month since 1996, a new regional or national telecommunications project has started in Africa, with revenues from the telecommunications industry and