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mobile health services in, 17b1.3network-sharing agreements, 57–58Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), 112–13NITEL, 112–13Norma, Moldova, 307b7.4North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 318Norway, 218, 236NPV. See net present value (NPV)OO 2, 120OBA. See output-based aid (OBA)OECD. See Organisation for EconomicCo-operation and Development(OECD)OFDM. See Orthogonal Frequency DivisionMultiplexing (OFDM)OLCP. See One Laptop per Child (OLCP)InitiativeOman, weblink to national broadbandplans, 335One Laptop per Child (OLCP) Initiative,263online content. See contentonline service providers (OSPs), 141online transactions, 147n40, 324, 329Openreach, 123open-source technologies, 282–83, 284operating rights, 176optical network units, 228Orange, 120, 307b7.4Organisation for Economic Co-operationand Development (OECD)and costs of backbone networks, 216–17and e-government services, 273initiatives to promote broadbandinvestment, 65network coverage data, 77and privacy issues, 138, 146n35as source of statistics, 84subscription definition, 78Orthogonal Frequency DivisionMultiplexing (OFDM), 228–29, 236OSPs. See online service providers (OSPs)output-based aid (OBA), 181, 191n25PPacific region. See East Asia and PacificregionPacket One Networks, 237packet-switched transmission, 230, 232t5.4Pakistan, 217, 311–12Partnership on Measuring ICTs forDevelopment, 76, 86n17Pashto language, 289n43passive optical network (PON), 228passive sharing of infrastructure, 119–21patents, protection of, 143pay-as-you-go pricing, 324pay or play mechanisms, 190n15pay phones, 175PDAs. See personal digital assistants(PDAs)peering and transit arrangements, 108–10,144n15, 197, 207–8, 210peer-to-peer technologies, 142, 270penetration rates, 5–8Chile, 310growth of, 19link to employment rate, 10mobile devices, 263–64See also subscriptionspersonal computers (PCs), 141affordability of, 261–63, 265b6.5for promoting digital literacy, 264b6.5shipments in, 21personal digital assistants (PDAs), 248personally identifiable information(PII), 136Peru, 104, 165, 166–67b4.3, 184Pew Internet American Life Project,259–60Pew Research Center, 286n2Philippines, 164PII. See personally identifiableinformation (PII)pilot projects, 49funding for in Canada, 178–79for universal service in Mongolia, 173b4.4ping time, Bahrain, 81f2.7, 240See also latency timesPLMNs. See public land mobile networks(PLMNs)points of presence (POPs), 183, 186b4.7,209–10Point-Topic, 301point-to-point connections, 203, 204, 219,227–28policies and policy making, 110for applications and content, 344–45tB.3and backbone networks, 217and converged networks and services,92–93and economic justification of fiscalsupport, 66–69, 85nn9Index 365