Broadband policy

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• France the Latest Showcase for National Fibre Public Funding

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  The French are good at doing infrastructure. The country takes pride in a civil service which has been progressively centralised since the efforts of Cardinal Richelieu in the mid-17th century. The well-funded health system is among the best in Europe. The generously subsidised rail service, the SNCF, also rates ...
  1 week ago

• KPNs Focus on FttC Misses the Broader Picture

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  The Netherlands remains one of the few countries in Europe to have significant FttH networks. Until 2009, the main characteristic of Dutch fibre rollouts was the dominant role played by housing corporations and municipal governments. This focus changed following KPNs acquisition of a 41% stake in the fibre provider ...
  1 week ago

• White Spaces Could Be the Broadcasters Best Hope

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  For years, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) fought the White Spaces Coalition and others interested in making US "TV white spaces" available for broadband, Wi-Fi or indeed, any new purpose. When the FCC voted 5-0 to permit license exempt use of TV White Spaces, the industry brought suit in Federal ...
  1 week ago

• Tories to Relax Fibre Broadband Rules

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 136
  It has been a refreshing news for the admirers in the United Kingdom, of the next generation superfast fibre optic broadband internet network that are eagerly waiting for it to happen with a comprehensive effect. The news is that the Conservative Party has put forward a suggestion that fibre optic broadband ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rural Broadband Wont Be Solved By Profit-Maximizing Means

  
  App-Rising — Authority: 116
  The foundation of American broadband policy to date has been that the best way to stimulate deployment is to leave it up to the market, to let private, profit-maximizing companies compete to lower prices, improve service, and expand networks. While this model may be working in some areas--like those with the choice ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unlimited VoIP Offers Starting to Appear in Africa

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  VoIP has been banned across most of Africa for a long time, feared by the state-owned telcos as a way for alternative service providers to bypass them with international calls, eroding a very lucrative part of their business. At profit margins of several thousand percent in some cases, it is not surprising that ...
  2 weeks ago

• [sn09] Larry Strickling

  
  Joho the Blog — Authority: 521
  Kevin Wehrback is interviewing Larry Strickland, Administrator of the NTIA. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and ...
  3 weeks ago

• EU Telecom Overhaul One Step Closer

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  Europes electronic communications sector is currently governed by directives adopted in 2002. These stipulated that the directives and regulatory framework should be reviewed, a processed initialised in November 2007. Both the European Council and the European Parliament need to adopt the proposed changes, and none of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Opposition Mounts in Europe to Three-Strikes Proposals

  
  CircleID — Authority: 537
  Multiple reports today indicate that opposition is growing in Europe to plans for three-strikes policies that could lead to the termination of Internet access for some subscribers. In the U.K., protests are mounting over those plans in the recently introduced Digital Economy Bill. The BBC reports that thousands of ...
  4 weeks ago

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