得益于90年代中期开始的自由化和开放经营,近年非洲的电信业得到了强劲发展。为满足乡村人民的电信需求和网络的现代化,实现信息和电信技术之间的融合,缩短与数码技术间的差距还要做大量的工作。电信业所发生的世界性危机可能会延迟非洲电信业水平的提高,但不会削减非洲电信业增长的潜力。 Thanks to the liberalization and openness that began in the mid-1990s, Africa’s telecommunications industry has enjoyed strong growth in recent years. A great deal of work needs to be done to meet the telecommunication needs of rural people and to modernize the network, to achieve convergence between information and telecommunication technologies, and to shorten the gap with digital technologies. The worldwide crisis in the telecommunications industry may delay the growth of the telecommunications industry in Africa but will not reduce the potential for growth in Africa’s telecommunications industry.