Bringing together experts on such countries as Bahrain, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Yemen Arab Republic, this book provides a comprehensive view of what each individual country is doing to build a telecommunications capability. The contributors also address the complicated economic and policy issues of each country's telecommunications. The editor, Eli Noam, is an internationally known authority on telecommunications, and this book is the latest in a group of similar works that survey telecommunications in major regions of the world. This work will appeal to students and professors of telecommunications, international telecommunications companies, and country governments in Western Asia.