Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics – Investment and Finance, grade: B, Aalborg University (Centre for Communication Media and Information Technology), course: Information Communication Technology, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the rational for using Public Private Partnership to develop telecommunication infrastructure. Case studies of the use of PPP in Africa and the EU is examined as a way of making the argument as to why the flexibility of PPP’s can enable the development of telecom infrastructure in a more cost effective way.