{"id":277313,"date":"2025-09-02T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-investment-mergers\/19000-itu-report-highlights-ongoing-connectivity-challenges.html"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:42:56","slug":"itu-report-highlights-ongoing-connectivity-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277313","title":{"rendered":"ITU report highlights ongoing connectivity challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Features\/African-smartphone-Guinea-2024.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amid the regular news of connectivity initiatives and new satellite deployments&nbsp;targeting remote areas, a recent report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for digital technologies, reminds us that there\u2019s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the regular news of connectivity initiatives and new satellite deployments&nbsp;targeting remote areas, a recent report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for digital technologies, reminds us that there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277314,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277313\/revisions\/277314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}