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International Mauritania Telecom, Office Congolais des Postes et Telecommunication,Orange Guinea, Orange Mali, Orange Niger, PT Comunicações,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sierra Leone Cable, Société des Télécommunicationsde Guinée, and Sonatel; see “20 Operators Team with Alcatel-Lucent toBring Fast, Lower-Cost Broadband Connectivity in Africa with a New 17,000Km Submarine System,” PR Newswire, June 2010, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/20-operators-team-with-alcatel-lucent-to-bring-fastlower-cost-broadband-connectivity-in-africa-with-a-new-17000-kmsubmarine-system-95852004.html.13. See the MCMC website, “MyICMS,” http://www.skmm.gov.my/index.php?c=public&v=art_view&art_id=62.14. InfoDev and ITU, “ICT Regulation Toolkit, Module 4: Universal Access andService,” http://www.ictregulationtoolkit.org/en/Section.3126.html.15. Some instruments can actually compound the obstacles. For example, grantingtax holidays or custom duty exemptions weakens the business climate bydiscriminating among economic activities and increasing the cost of taxadministration and compliance.16. Although the deployment of national backbones is an important goal of somebroadband plans, the indicators to measure developments in these areas havenot been identified or defined by the international statistical community, andthe data are not widely available. Nevertheless, perusal of plans from somecountries can help to identify relevant indicators. For example, India’s proposedbroadband plan calls for the construction of a national fiber opticbackbone throughout the country. Deployment might be measured by indicatorssuch as the number of localities served by the national fiber optic backboneand kilometers of fiber backbone in the network. See TeleGeography, “India’sNational Broadband Policy to Be Sent for Cabinet Approval Shortly,” March 31,2011, http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2011/03/31/indias-national-broadband-policy-to-be-sent-for-cabinetapproval-shortly/.17. The Partnership on Measuring ICTs for Development aims to develop furtherinitiatives regarding the availability and measurement of ICT indicators at theregional and international levels. It provides an open framework for developinga coherent and structured approach to advancing the development of ICTindicators globally, particularly in developing countries. Partners includeEUROSTAT, ITU, the OECD, United Nations Conference on Trade andDevelopment, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’sInstitute for Statistics, the United Nations regional commissions( Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Economic andSocial Commission for Western Asia, Economic and Social Commission forAsia and the Pacific, and Economic Commission for Africa), United NationsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs, and the World Bank. See http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/partnership/index.html. See also UNCTAD (2010).In addition, the ITU has identified and defined other broadband-relatedstatistics. See ITU (2010).18. For more on issues related to measuring broadband coverage, see OECD(2009).86 Broadband Strategies Handbook