Tag Archive for ‘broadband network’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'broadband network'

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Canada’s broadband quality below threshold?

on September 16, 2008

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 Friday, found that Canada is below the global broadband quality threshold, which measures the proliferation of high-speed internet in a country, as well as the speeds available and the reliability of connections.

While Japan was the only country to meet the study’s standards for future readiness, broadband networks in countries such as Latvia, Romania and Bulgaria scored better than Canada, which ranked 27th out of the 42 nations covered. The United…

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Tags: Broadband, broadband network, broadband networks, Bulgaria, Canada, high-speed Internet, Internet traffic, Internet usage, Japan, Latvia, London, Oxford Said Business School, Romania, Spain, United States, Universidad de Oviedo in Spain.

FCC partially rules for Google on open networks

Rohan Samarajiva

on August 1, 2007

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 rules for an auction of broadcast spectrum that its chairman, Kevin J. Martin, said would promote new consumer services. The rules will let customers use any phone and software they want on networks using about one-third of the spectrum to be auctioned.

The F.C.C. did not approve a provision that would have required the winner of the auction to sell access to its network on a wholesale basis to other companies.…

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Tags: access to its network, broadband network, consumer services, F.C.C., Federal Communications Commission, Google, Kevin J. Martin, open national wireless broadband network, open wireless networks, Victory - New York Times, wireless broadband.

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