Practica

Nombre y Apellido:_____________________
Secc: ___________ Grade:_____________
Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica
"Antonio José De Sucre".
Vicerrectorado Puerto Ordaz
DepartamentoDe Estudios Generales.
Sección De Humanidades.
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Cátedra De Ingles. 4to Parcial-25%
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Profa:Melissa Tapia

Society and telecommunication
The following sections discuss the impact of telecommunication on society:

On the microeconomic scale, companies have used telecommunication to help buildglobal empires. This is self-evident in the case of online retailer Amazon.com_such as______, according to academic Edward Lenert, __although_ the conventional retailer Wal-Mart has benefited frombetter telecommunication infrastructure compared to its competitors. In cities throughout the world, home owners use their telephones to organize many home services ranging from pizza deliveries toelectricians. Even relatively poor communities have been noted to use telecommunication to their advantage.
On the macroeconomic scale, it is suggested a causal link between good telecommunicationinfrastructure and economic growth.___such as__ of the economic benefits of good telecommunication infrastructure there is increasing worry about the inequitable access to telecommunication servicesamongst various countries of the world—this is known _____as_____ the digital divide. A 2003 survey by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) revealed that roughly one-third of countries haveless than one mobile subscription for every 20 people and one-third of countries have less than one land-line telephone subscription for every 20 people. In terms of Internet access, roughly half of allcountries have fewer than one out of 20 people with Internet access. From this information, as well as educational data, the ITU was able to compile an index that measures the overall ability of...