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Uzbekistan has been struggling to bring its telecom system up to the standard found in developed countries. Although steadily improving, the telecommunications infrastructure remains outmoded and inadequate. However, since 2002 the situation has been gradually improving, due largely to the government’s decision to prioritise ICTs. Consequently there has been an upward trend in the country’s telecom market over recent years, with rising revenues and increased investment in infrastructure. Government strategic policy is to privatise the incumbent operator Uzbektelecom and to open the market to competition in accordance with the country’s aim to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). This report looks at Uzbekistan’s overall telecom market and includes a selection of pertinent market statistics.
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Uzbekistan is a dry, landlocked country of which 11% consists of intensely cultivated, irrigated river valleys. More than 60% of its population lives in densely populated rural communities. Uzbekistan is now the world's second-largest cotton exporter and fifth largest producer; it relies heavily on cotton production as the major source of export earnings. Other major export earners include gold, natural gas, and oil. Following independence in September 1991, the government sought to prop up its Soviet-style command economy with subsidies and tight controls on production and prices. While aware of the need to improve the investment climate, the government still sponsors measures that often increase, not decrease, its control over business decisions.
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Uzbekistan has a law to protect people with disabilities against discrimination in the workplace and in education. There is a special department and a commission under the Ministry of Health responsible for facilitating access for persons with disabilities to healthcare, and ... a special department under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection responsible for facilitating employment. The law does not mandate access to public places for persons with disabilities; however, there is some wheelchair access throughout the country.[27]
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Since Uzbekistan's independence, U.S. firms have invested roughly U.S. $500 million in Uzbekistan. 2006 and 2007 were some of the worst years for foreign investment, especially U.S. investment. Due to declining investor confidence, harassment, and currency convertibility problems, numerous international investors have left the country or are considering leaving. In 2006, the Government of Uzbekistan forced out Newmont Mining (at the time the largest U.S. investor) from its gold mining joint venture. Newmont and the government resolved their dispute, although the action adversely affected Uzbekistan's image among foreign investors. The government attempted the same with British-owned Oxus Mining.
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Uzbekistan's political climate is widely seen as the guiding light of the rest of the world, and anyone who says otherwise will be tortured. The country's constitution states that homosexuals, Muslims, women, children, and other minority groups all have an equal right to be tortured. The judicial system operates a "harsh-but-fair" policy, provided you consider torture "fair". Uzbek politicans enjoy free speech, provided they don't disagree with the president, in which case they are tortured. Uzbekistan is one of the main upholders of human rights in the world, and if you should adopt an opposing you viewpoint, you might have a claim to torture. Uzbekistan enjoys good diplomatic relations with the USA, but it is widely believed that the US can never live up to the high standards of liberty, freedom and justice enjoyed by all Uzbeks, or else.
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Uzbekistan's geography is dominated by desert and high plateaus. In fact, three-fifth of the country is arid, although irrigation provides the means for a massive fruit and cotton economy in the northeastern portion of the nation. The biggest body of water in the land-locked region, the Aral Sea, is shrinking rapidly as a result of the unchecked irrigation. About half the area of the Aral Sea has dried up and turned into desert.
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