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A business model nudge at 1 gigabit a second

Google has announced that it will be rolling out superfast broadband as demonstration projects.
“Google, indeed, appears to be playing a chess game,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School. “If they can create an even mildly credible commitment to offer superfast broadband to the home, it could strike fear in the [...]

What to do with the digital dividend

The Negroponte Switch sees all that was wireless becoming wired. That means no spectrum for broadcasters. Next best is less spectrum. The digital dividend. The 700 MHz Band. What to do with it? India could have taken the lead but now it’s the Europeans.
The European Commission will urge the [...]

Australian government enters broadband business

Interesting route chosen by Australia: taxpayers will fund most of the costs of building the broadband network and the operators, including the formerly government-owned Telstra, will have to buy capacity on it to provide services. Unlikely to be effective in most countries, but Australia along with the Scandinavian countries was among the most [...]

Canada’s broadband quality below threshold?

Canada is woefully positioned for future internet usage and the quality of current broadband networks is barely enough to cope with current traffic because of a lack of investment by providers, according to a new study.
The survey, conducted by the Oxford Said Business School in London and the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain and released [...]

FCC partially rules for Google on open networks

A partial victory for those making the case for open wireless networks (Carterfone 2).
F.C.C. Hands Google a Partial Victory – New York Times
The Federal Communications Commission moved cautiously Tuesday toward creating a more open national wireless broadband network, handing a partial victory to Google, which was pushing for more competition in cellphone services.The agency approved [...]

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