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The future of the NBN after the election
Whoever wins the upcoming federal election will have to articulate why Australian as a nation needs an NBN. And they will need to clearly convey why the government needs to be involved in this. At the moment there is no … Continue reading
Guatemala – World Bank invests in mobile network infrastructure, helping migration to 4G
Growth in Guatemala’s telecom sector has been affected by the continuing global economic downturn, which has reduced spending power in both the residential and corporate markets. The fixed-line market shrank for the first time in 2009, a trend which has … Continue reading
Can we afford not to have a fibre optic infrastructure?
Fibre-based infrastructure requires vision and recognition of the fact that many of today’s social, economic and sustainability problems can only be solved with the assistance of ICT. In many situations the capacity, robustness, security and quality necessary for this calls … Continue reading
Open Letter from the Broadband Commission to the UN
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development1 wishes to address this Open Letter to the members of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. As the one-thousand day countdown to 2015 begins on 5 April … Continue reading
Europe’s fibre infrastructure gaining pace through investment stimuli
During the last few years Europe has made considerable progress towards building national Next Generation Networks based on fibre infrastructure. The timetable for this exercise differs between countries, but most will have completed the migration from legacy copper networks to … Continue reading
