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- The Issue Is the Digital Economy, Not Broadband
- By Paul Budde. CircleID, February 21, 2012. "After some five years of public debate on the national broadband network it is heartening to see that more and more people are getting the message that the network means more than just fast internet access. Increasingly key decision-makers in business and government are reaching an understanding of the transformation that is underway in the economy..."
Added: 19 March 2012;
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- US and Canada Drop in Broadband Penetration Worldwide - January 2012 Bandwidth Report
- Website Optimization, LLC, Last modified: February 27, 2012. Summary: The United States and Canada both dropped in worldwide broadband rankings last year, according to a recent broadband survey. The US dropped to 23rd place in Q1 2011 in broadband penetration.
Added: 19 March 2012;
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- Canada Joins Global Ranking of FTTH Countries
- Fibre to the Home, Munich, 16 February 2012. "With their FTTH deployments ramping up, Canada and Malaysia have joined the list of economies where at least one percent of households are connected to all-fiber networks, according to the global fiber to the home councils. The annual ranking, which tracks global deployment of fiber networks, was released today at the conclusion FTTH Council Europe's annual conference. It now includes 30 economies worldwide that have at least one percent of their households connected to FTTH/B, with South Korea continuing to lead in market penetration with FTTH/B reaching 58 percent of households in the country, followed by the United Arab Emirates at 56 percent, Hong Kong at 45 percent, Japan at 42 percent and Taiwan at 29 percent..."
Added: 20 February 2012;
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- Internet economy: wireless subscribers drive broadband growth, says OECD
- OECD, 1 December 2011. "Demand from new wireless broadband subscribers is driving growth in high-speed Internet in OECD countries but the latest data show a slowdown in fixed subscriptions in the first half of 2011. New wireless broadband subscriptions maintained double digit growth, rising by 14% from the last half of 2010. Year-on-year, wireless subscriptions rose by 26%. Fixed wired broadband subscriptions increased by only 2.25% between December 2010 and June 2011 (5.83% year-on-year), down from 6% in the last half of 2010. Today, there are 309 million fixed subscribers in the OECD..."
Added: 7 December 2011;
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- The Broadband Challenge - in pdf format (189kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Broadband Commission for Digital Development, Geneva, 25 October 2011. "... Broadband technologies are fundamentally transforming the way we live. It is vital that no one be excluded from the new global knowledge societies we are building. We believe that communication is not just a human need – it is a right. The greater communication and understanding made possible through access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help us overcome the challenges in our complex and interdependent global society..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- UN sets ambitious national targets for broadband affordability and uptake
- By Stuart Corner. IT Wire, Wednesday, 26 October 2011. "The UN's Broadband Commission for Digital Development has set new targets for broadband policy, affordability and uptake that it says countries around the world should strive for in order to ensure their populations fully participate in tomorrow's emerging knowledge societies..."
Added: 27 October 2011;
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- Full speed ahead: The government broadband report Q3 2011
- A summary of the main report from the Economist Intelligence Unit. EIU, October 2011. "As the third edition of our government broadband report shows, the issue of high-speed internet access remains at the forefront of the policy agenda in both developed and emerging markets. While circumstances and concerns differ from one country to the next, the motivations for public-sector involvement remain the same. Governments are keen to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural areas by bringing basic broadband services of between 1Mbps and 5Mbps to all. Yet governments also want to facilitate greater rollout of so-called next-generation networks (NGNs) that can provide broadband speeds of between 40Mbps and 100Mbps, and sometimes higher..." [Requires Registration]
Added: 11 October 2011;
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- Is FttH Future-Proof Infrastructure?
- By Paul Budde. CircleID, August 16, 2011. "Telecoms engineers from all of the major telecoms services and equipment companies around the world agree that FttH is the only future-proof telecommunications technology. So who should we trust — the technology experts or politicians with different agendas? If there had been a division of opinion among these experts it would have been necessary to investigate it; but if they are all in agreement it is safe to follow their advice. Certainly the copper network has life left in it..."
Added: 17 August 2011;
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- UN's Broadband Commission sets out roadmap for ubiquitous broadband
- By Stuart Corner. ITWire, Tuesday, 7 June 2011. "The Broadband Commission for Digital Development, set up by the International Telecommunication Union and UNESCO, has produced a second report emphasising the essential role for broadband in recommending strategies governments should adopt to ensure adequate broadband infrastructure..."
Added: 7 June 2011;
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- Broadband: A platform for progress - in pdf format (3848kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). A Report By The Broadband Commission For Digital Development, May 2011. "... This report is the second outcome to be issued by the Broadband Commission in support of its recommendations. It offers more detailed examples, evidence, technical choices and strategies for extending broadband networks within the reach of all. 'Broadband: a Platform for Progress' is also designed to be the introduction to an evolving collection of resources in the form of an online database to carry forward the work of the Broadband Commission. This repository will carry the outcome reports of the Broadband Commission, as well as numerous research reports, case studies from both developed and developing countries, and other materials to encourage and inform governments and industry — and individual communities themselves — on why broadband is crucially important in today’s world and about ways to get connected..."
Added: 7 June 2011;
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- European Mobile Broadband Penetration Nearly Twice the Americas - February 2011 Bandwidth Report
- By website optimization on 28 February 2011. "Europe leads the world in mobile broadband penetration with nearly twice the subscribers per 100 inhabitants than that of The Americas and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The CIS leads all areas surveyed in mobile cellular subscriptions with over 130% penetration, according to a recent survey by the ITU..."
Added: 16 March 2011;
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- Full speed ahead: The government broadband index Q1 2011
- Economist Intelligence Unit, 2011. "With ambitious targets for both the speed and coverage of next-generation broadband networks, the developed countries of South-east Asia score highest in the gBBi, the first-ever index to assess countries on the basis of government planning, as opposed to current broadband capability... Australia, the country with the highest-profile and most controversial public-sector scheme, also falls in the bottom half of the index, mainly because it is spending a colossal 7.58% of annual government budget revenues on its National Broadband Network... Register to download the free abridged version of the Executive Summary..."
Added: 10 February 2011;
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- OECD broadband statistics (June 2010)
- OECD Broadband Portal - Press Release (June 2010 data). "The OECD has released new statistics today on broadband penetration in OECD countries as of June 2010. These include the number of broadband subscribers per country, broadband subscriptions by technology, the percentage of fibre connections in total broadband and, for the first time, a wireless broadband penetration indicator..."
Added: 8 December 2010;
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- The State of the Internet - Quarter 1, 2010 Report
- Volume 3, no. 1. Akamai, 2010. "This report includes data gathered from across Akamai's global server network about attack traffic, broadband adoption, and mobile connectivity, as well as trends seen in this data over time. Periodically, it also aggregates publicly available news and information about notable events seen throughout the quarter, including Denial of Service attacks, Web site hacks, and network events, including outages and new connections. During the first quarter of 2010, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 198 unique countries around the world..." [Requires registration]
Added: 7 October 2010;
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- What web speed means for public sector
- By Robin Hicks. FutureGov, 6 October 2010. "Of the top 100 cities with the world's fastest internet speeds, 73 are in Asia, a report from Akamai has revealed. What are the implications of high-speed connectivity for government services? ..."
Added: 7 October 2010;
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