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The Impact of Communications Satellites on the Less Developed Areas

United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Working Paper (1962), 14 pp.

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"As the level of economic expansion of the under-developed regions of the world rises, they will come to need a better and more extensive telecommunications network — The part which communications satellites could play in this necessary improvement of inter-regional links — Satellites constitute one of the telecommunications media — This medium will be used only for specific tasks and in specific circumstances — Description of the present techniques in the field studied — Possibilities offered by these systems in the future — Economic aspects — Comparison with other systems likely to be used in the field of telecommunications. [Working Paper. Contribution to: The United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Less Developed Areas, Geneva, 4 to 20 February 1963. E/Conf. 39/L/65. Agenda Item: L.5.2]" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1125, topic code 09)