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Broadband Networks in the Middle East and North Africa: Accelerating High-Speed Internet Access
April, 2015
Just as the steam engine was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, broadband Internet is today seen as critical to the transition to knowledge-intensive economies across the world. As a general purpose technology, broadband Internet is considered as a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, releasing the innovative potential and energy of previously disenfranchised members of the population. Many of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) now recognize that broadband Internet is crucial to their efforts to reduce poverty and create... Read More
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In Middle East and N. Africa, the broadband gap is gaping
New report cites lack of competition, challenges to affordability. Unleashing dark fiber may help.
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Lack of effective competition and lack of appropriate regulation are two serious impediments to wider broadband availability and adoption in Africa and the Arab world, write the authors of this February 2014 report published by The World Bank.
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Selected papers and reports
Intelligent takes and original research on all things broadband.
Deployment and Usage
Pew Home broadband 2015 (Pew Internet Center, Dec. 21, 2015)
Libraries' Increasing Role in Broadband Adoption (Benton Foundation, Jan. 2016)
Broadband Privacy: The Folly of Sector-Specific Rules (Information... Read More
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A 2030 Vision for Broadband
April, 2015
BCoE Executive Director Rouzbeh Yassini offers some compelling thoughts about the broadband future, drawing on trends in bandwidth and software integration.
Download BCOE's "Broadband 2030: The Networked Future."
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Faster broadband: a key to economic gains
Study points to correlation between faster broadband networks and improvements in income.
Can high-speed Internet improve your financial well-being?
A 2013 study concluded the answer is “yes,” both for individuals and entire nations.
Conducted by telecom equipment maker Ericsson, management consultancy Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology, the study examined hundreds of academic papers plus data published by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, among other sources. Among key conclusions is that access to high-performance broadband networks correlates... Read More
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TV White Space: Ready for Prime Time?
January, 2014
TVWS exhibits potential not only for extending the availabilty of braodband access to areas where it is absent, but — at least in certain instances — for serving an alternative to existing broadband networks where affordability may be an impediment.
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TV White Space: Ready for Prime Time?
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Major figures in the Internet economy have high hopes to use TV White Space (TVWS) frequencies to deliver wireless broadband Internet connectivity over long distances and extended areas -- the so-called "Super Wi-Fi" medium.
Beginning in September 2013 and in association with the Gigabit Libraries Network, UNH BCoE completed a four-month trial of TVWS technology in Durham, N.H., that provided Internet connectivity for two libraries and the UNH InterOperability Laboratory (IOL), a nationally known technology testing facility.
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Assessing TVWS for Rural Broadband Access
November, 2014
Detailed findings from a trial deployment of technologies used to provision high-speed Internet access over license-exempt airwaves are now available from the University of New Hampshire Broadband Center of Excellence.
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TV White Space: a work in progress
An absence of standards-based products is one impediment to broader deployment.
Comprehensive trial of TV White Space Internet technology identified impediments to large-scale deployment.
The trial took place in 2013 thru 2014 using TV White Spaces (TVWS), the unused RF spectrum frequencies originally reserved for television broadcasters. In and around Durham, N.H., UNH BCoE conducted comprehensive evaluations on the installation, utilization and operational performance in an attempt to determine the real-world potential for TVWS as a solution to fill in broadband network coverage gaps. ... Read More
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A 2030 Vision for Broadband
From immersive learning to automated collaboration, some provocative views about where broadband is taking us.
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Author: Rouzbeh Yassini, Ph.D.
BCoE Executive Director Rouzbeh Yassini offers some compelling thoughts about the broadband future, drawing on trends in bandwidth and software integration.
Download BCOE's "Broadband 2030: The Networked Future."
