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The need for speed: the importance of next-generation broadband networks
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In this article, the authors argue that supporting the deployment of faster broadband networks will be crucial to enabling next-generation Web-based applications and services that will play important roles in improving quality of life and boosting economic growth.Abstract:
This report from US think-tank ITIF argues that supporting the deployment of faster broadband networks will be crucial to enabling next-generation Web-based applications and services that will play important roles in improving quality of life and boosting economic growth. While getting broadband service to the Americans who lack it is an important policy target, next-generation broadband will deliver a wave of new benefits to consumers, society, businesses, and the economy.read more
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Take your partners: Public private interplay in Australian and New Zealand plans for next generation broadband
TL;DR: Within a few days of each other in early 2009, the national governments of Australia and New Zealand announced separate plans to invest heavily in advanced broadband networks as discussed by the authors, which demonstrate a shift away from the liberalization and privatization policy consensus of the last two decades; shared convictions about the anticipated size of fast broadband's economic and social benefits, and about the need for wholesale-only fixed line network operation to maximize those benefits.
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Productivity and Broadband The Human Factor
TL;DR: The productivity paradox has been largely resolved, but debate persists about the impacts of information and communications technologies on productivity, particularly as regards broadband Interne... as mentioned in this paper. But the productivity paradox is largely resolved.
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Broadband and knowledge intensive firm clusters: Essential link or auxiliary connection?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relationship between the spatial distribution of broadband providers and the presence of knowledge intensive firm clusters in US counties and conclude that broadband should be viewed as a key component, but not the only component, of comprehensive local economic development plans.
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Universal service: A new definition?
TL;DR: The concept of universal service obligation (USO) has been around for decades; however, its definition continues to change as mentioned in this paper, and the concept is becoming bifurcated.
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Competition-regulation interface in telecommunications: What's left of the essential facility doctrine
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that interpreting the concept of essential facilities too broadly is likely to lead to insufficient incentives to invest in the future, and that it is thus advisable to get back to a narrow interpretation of this doctrine, in order to strike the right balance between the incentives to engage in infrastructure-based competition and the goal of boosting service-based competitive in the short run.
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Measuring Broadband’s Economic Impact
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present estimates of the effect of broadband on a number of indicators of economic activity, including employment, wages, and industry mix, using a cross-sectional panel data set of communities (by zip code) across the United States.
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Digital Quality of Life: Understanding the Personal and Social Benefits of the Information Technology Revolution
Robert D. Atkinson,Daniel Castro +1 more
TL;DR: In the new global economy information technology (IT) is the major driver of both economic growth and improved quality of life as discussed by the authors, and it is also at the core of dramatic improvements in the quality-of-life for individuals around the world.
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Explaining International Broadband Leadership
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined broadband promotion policies in 9 nations and found that while we should not look to other nations for silver bullets or assume that practices in one nation will automatically work in another, U.S policymakers can and should learn from broadband best practices in other nations.
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MammoGrid--a prototype distributed mammographic database for Europe.
Ruth Warren,Anthony Solomonides,C. del Frate,Iqbal Warsi,J. Ding,Mohammed Odeh,Richard McClatchey,Christopher Tromans,Michael Brady,R Highnam,M. Cordell,Florida Estrella,Massimo Bazzocchi,S. R. Amendolia +13 more
TL;DR: The MammoGrid database appears to the user to be a single database, but the mammograms that comprise it are in fact retained and curated in the centres that generated them.
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The Case for a National Broadband Policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the case for proactive public policy support of broadband telecommunications, and discuss four reasons why leaving it to the market alone is likely to lead to slower deployment and take up of broadband, especially next generation, high speed broadband.