"It's about making better use of existing infrastructure, improving the capacity and flow of the network," adds Staelens.
Holloway advises utilities to optimise existing infrastructure – improving billing and collection, reducing leaks etc – before embarking on extensions.
Knowing how settlements are distributed across the landscape e.g., in clusters, along roads or waterways, or scattered widely—has important implications for designing infrastructure, improving access, and promoting sustainability.
The billions, which could be spent rebuilding the nation's crumbling infrastructure, improving schools, or reducing the scourge of malaria in Africa, will instead be squandered in a heinous free-for-all of slander and personal destruction, alienating voters as never before.
"I have a great love for our country, but it is a country that is in serious trouble," Mr Trump, sometimes referred to as The Donald, said in his statement that also called for rebuilding the nation's infrastructure, improving border security, strengthening the military and improving the economy.
How settlements are distributed across the landscape e.g., in clusters, along roads or waterways, or scattered widely—has important implications for designing infrastructure, improving access, and promoting sustainability, not only for communication technologies but also for transportation, water and sanitation, energy, disaster risk management, and many other aspects of sustainable development.
High-quality transport services and infrastructure improve the labor market performance, attract inward investments and help to create an improved quality of life.
"In a [digital] ecosystem when infrastructure improves, the biggest beneficiaries are the large players," he explains.
But most people don't think so, and won't till the infrastructure improves.
Eventually the infrastructure improved so that there were no limits to how much text we could transmit at once.
Which means that – as network infrastructure improves – people will be online for most of their waking lives.
