To accommodate the influx of people, new roads and rail lines had to be built, and the city's power grid and telephone lines expanded.
Iraq's population is largely urbanized, its health care system is relatively advanced and it has much more than Afghanistan in terms of highways, electricity grids and telephone networks.
The government has invested significant resources in updating and expanding the country's telecommunications infrastructure, and large portions of the telephone grid have been digitized.
A hundred years ago the way people lived and worked was being transformed by two other network industries the electricity grid and the telephone system.
It has obliged the main state firms the national airline, the power grid and the telephone operator to make their accounts more transparent, and it has set up regulatory bodies ahead of privatisation.
A well-functioning communications grid with effective telephone, computer and data information delivery systems is in place.
Africa's stunning lack of basic services, such as electrical and telephone grids and Internet connectivity, might cause many to despair, but Euvin Naidoo--a leading advocate for Western investment in the underdeveloped continent--looks at the map and sees something different: hope.
Africa's stunning lack of basic services, such as electrical and telephone grids and Internet connectivity, might cause many to despair, but Euvin Naidoo a leading advocate for Western investment in the underdeveloped continent looks at the map and sees something different: hope.
He has become suddenly popular among friends on the grid, he reported by telephone.
Not only would parts of the grid be compromised, but telephone networks, undersea cables, satellites and railroads also would be affected.
