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OECD broadband used by one-fifth of the population
The OECD countries are racing toward a broadband solution based fixed access, ADSL, Cable or FTTH.
THE number of people subscribing to broadband in OECD countries increased by 13% last year to 267m. More than a fifth of the combined population of the 30 mostly rich nations in the OECD now have high-speed access to the [...]
A “connectivity scorecard” that places the US in first place
Several years back, Korea topped the OECD’s broadband rankings and the ITU’s Digital Opportunity Index. That caused a lot of countries to reexamine their broadband policies. It caused others to develop new indices. The NYT carries a report on one:
After the United States, the ranking found that Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and [...]
Bangladesh doesn’t need a universal service tax
An article written by Rohan Samarajiva on Bangladesh’s proposed universal service taxes has been published in The Daily Star, Bangladesh; an excerpt follows.
Bangladesh currently has the lowest mobile prices in the world and perhaps the world’s highest mobile growth rate. Pretty good, by any measure. A universal service tax can ruin the business model that [...]
What Good Is Broadband
The central question of whether ICTs do any good, is discussed in relation to always-on broadband connections in the OECD. The question is, of course, of even greater importance in developing countries.
The OECD released its latest report on May 19th. It surveys the broadband landscape to December 2007, and tells a warm tale. The number [...]
Latin American and Asian mobile prices and methodologies compared
Mobile Benchmark Studies in South Asia and Latin America | L I R N E . N E T
DIRSI’s study on mobile price and affordability also adapts the OECD price baskets to compare the monthly costs of using mobiles in six Latin American countries. The Latin American baskets take into consideration call and SMS volumes [...]
Liberalisation key for next billion Internet users: OECD
An OECD report, Global Opportunities for Internet Access Developments, says that the next billion Internet users will be very different from the first billion and governments in developing countries, where these users will come from, must adapt strategic regulatory and investment policies to lower access costs.
“The characteristics of these new Internet users will be [...]
The coming issue is broadband
Broadband | Open up those highways | Economist.com
As Taylor Reynolds, an OECD analyst, puts it, innovation usually comes in steps: newcomers first rent space on an existing network, to build up customers and income. Then they create new and better infrastructure, as and when they need it.
In France, for example, the regulator forced [...]
Fourteen countries have more mobile phone subscribers than people
THE number of mobile-phone subscribers in the 30 countries of the OECD reached nearly 933m in 2005, equivalent to around 80 for every 100 people. Tiny Luxembourg has the highest penetration rate, with 157.3 subscribers for every 100 people. Indeed, it is one of 14 countries in which there are more subscribers than people. This [...]
Benchmarking broadband in the OECD
The OECD has published comparative data on broadband speeds and prices. This will help drive prices down and quality up.
The rest of the countries need to develop their own benchmarks.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Global broadband prices revealed
According to the report, broadband prices for DSL connections across the 30 countries have fallen by [...]
Documenting the Capabilities of Measuring ICT Statistics in India
Payal Malik, Senior Researcher, LIRNEasia was invited to the eleventh meeting of the Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society (WPIIS) of the OECD countries, held on Monday 21 May 2007, at the Department of Trade and Industry Conference Centre, London.
She presented her report on “Documenting the Capabilities of Measuring ICT Statistics in India”. [...]
LIRNEasia presents its research in Pakistan
14 June 2007) Rohan Samarajiva, Joseph Wilson, Harsha de Silva and Tahani Iqbal presented recent research conducted by LIRNEasia at a media and stakeholder event organized by the Pakistan Telecom Authority in Islamabad today.
Following opening remarks by Chairman of PTA, Major General (R) Shahzada Alam Malik, Samarajiva and Wilson presented the new improved version of [...]
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