tailieunhanh - Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world

Fostering the development of a ubiquitously networked society, connected over high-capacity networks, is a widely shared goal among both developed and developing countries. High capacity networks are seen as strategic infrastructure, intended to contribute to high and sustainable economic growth and to core aspects of human development. In the pursuit of this goal, various countries have, over the past decade and a half, deployed different strategies, and enjoyed different results. At the Commission’s request, this study reviews the current plans and practices pursued by other countries in the transition to the next generation of connectivity, as well as their past experience. By observing the experiences of. | Next Generation Connectivity A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world October 2009 DRAFT Berkman The Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard University Next Generation Connectivity Contributors This report represents the outcome of a substantial and engaged team effort most extensively by Berkman Center researchers with many contributions from others elsewhere at Harvard and in other institutions and centers around the world. I am deeply indebted to the many and diverse contributions that each and every one of them made. The project would not have been possible without the tremendous effort and engagement by the leadership team. Robert Faris skeptical reading study design country case studies Urs Gasser overall leadership country case studies international research reading editing Laura Miyakawa project manager pricing studies quantitative analyses Stephen Schultze project leadership bibliographic research design and implementation country case studies Each of our country overviews and annexes was researched authored and edited by a fantastic group of colleagues research assistants and friends that resulted both in the overviews and in informing the main document. Jerome Baudry Eliane Bucher Anjali Dalal Gildas de Muizon Jan Gerlach Jock Given Hank Greenberg Pascal Herzog James Kwok Alan Lenarcic statistics unbundling econometrics Olivier Sautel Marta Stryszowska Lara Srivastava Andrea Von Kaenel Asa Wilks statistics urbanicity poverty actual speed tests analysis This report would also not been possible without the researching annotating copy editing spreadsheeting cheerleading and organizing provided by Berkman Center staff and interns and the Harvard Law School Library staff. Catherine Bracy Bruce Etling Sawyer Carter Jacobs Colin Maclay Jillian York Ramesh Nagarajan Caroline Nolan Antwaun Wallace Catherine White Seth Young