An analysis of telecommunications traffic between the world’s seven most industrialised countries shows that the US is the only one to be in the top 10 destinations of the other six and to have all the others on its own list of top 10 destinations: as well as confirming the US as the world’s communications hub, the report, by the University of Haifa in Israel finds that world telecommunications structures are divided, with Third World countries tied to global contracts with former colonial powers and East Europeans preferring telecommunications ties to the West than with each other – even before the Wall fell.
