The Need for Speed: The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks

Atkinson, Robert D.; Ezell, Stephen; Castro, Daniel; Ou, George

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1354032

“…Next-generation broadband will enable video streaming applications, high-quality videoconferencing, faster and larger file transfers, and a number of high-bandwidth applications to run simultaneously (DBCDE, 2011;Ezell et al, 2009); and in the transformative vision of the NBN, the home will become smart and connected. While the notion of the connected or smart digital home has been around in different guises for a number of decades (see, for example, Edwards et al, 2011;Spigel, 2001;Venkatesh, 2008), Final draft version of article published in Media International Australia, No.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network: Competency, Legibility, Context

Nansen¹,

Wilken²,

Arnold³

et al. 2013

Media International Australia

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This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study of fifteen participant households in North Hobart and Midway Point, Tasmania. Key themes emerging from this research have been gathered and presented here through the metaphor 'digital literacy'. The first half of the article is concerned with developing a critical understanding of what is at stake in the notion, or metaphor, of digital literacy. The second half tests these understandings against our research. In our conversations with the people of North Hobart and Midway Point, we found evidence of digital illiteracy, and also evidence of the weaknesses of digital literacy as an explanatory trope. We group these findings using three themes: (1) the presence of instrumental literacy; (2) the illegibility of the NBN and its HSB services; and (3) structural conditions limiting the acquisition of the NBN and its HSB services. These three draw upon the digital literacy metaphor, but make its shortcomings clear, and the latter two in particular extend the metaphor from a personal deficit model to one that embraces technologies and social structures.

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“…The installation of fibre-to-the-home is often likened to last century's provision of electricity, and in this analogy the digital infrastructure of the twentyfirst century is expected to connect and integrate homes to the digital economy through the provision of universal, equitable and affordable high-speed broadband (HSB). Next-generation broadband will enable video streaming applications, high-quality videoconferencing, faster and larger file transfers, and a number of high-bandwidth applications to run simultaneously (DBCDE, 2011;Ezell et al, 2009); and in the transformative vision of the NBN, the home will become smart and connected. While the notion of the connected or smart digital home has been around in different guises for a number of decades (see, for example, Edwards et al, 2011;Spigel, 2001;Venkatesh, 2008), it has been concretised in the wake of the NBN as a platform connected to the economy.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network: Competency, Legibility, Context

Nansen¹,

Wilken²,

Arnold³

et al. 2012

Media International Australia

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This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study of fifteen participant households in North Hobart and Midway Point, Tasmania. Key themes emerging from this research have been gathered and presented here through the metaphor 'digital literacy'. The first half of the article is concerned with developing a critical understanding of what is at stake in the notion, or metaphor, of digital literacy. The second half tests these understandings against our research. In our conversations with the people of North Hobart and Midway Point, we found evidence of digital illiteracy, and also evidence of the weaknesses of digital literacy as an explanatory trope. We group these findings using three themes: (1) the presence of instrumental literacy; (2) the illegibility of the NBN and its HSB services; and (3) structural conditions limiting the acquisition of the NBN and its HSB services. These three draw upon the digital literacy metaphor, but make its shortcomings clear, and the latter two in particular extend the metaphor from a personal deficit model to one that embraces technologies and social structures.

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“…Facilitating the widespread deployment of next-generation broadband Internet with download speeds of at least 20 Megabits per second (Mbps), and ideally 50 Mbps or upwards will enable the emergence of a whole host of online applications and services, many of which we can barely imagine today [5,7,8].…”

Section: Brazilian Broadband Among World's Worstmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure and Business Model for Universal Broadband Access in Developing Regions: The Ceara State Digital Belt

Gomes¹,

Gomes

²

,

Fernandez

³

2010

Communications: Wireless in Developing Countries and Networks of the Future

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International audienceWith regard to digital services access, many rural and remote urban area in developing countries are underserved, if served at all. In a monopolized environment, telecommunications are of low quality and costly. Broadband Internet and other digital services are restricted to small percentage of people. In some cases the operator prefers to pay fines instead of providing services to remote areas. In this paper we present an infrastructure together with its business model that is being installed in the Brazilian Ceara state. This infrastructure was entirely constructed by the state government, but the operational costs (OPEX) will be paid by investors willing to share data transportation. Different groups will be chosen among interested investors by public auction, in order to enforce competition. Moreover, a new state company will be created that will offer low cost data transportation services, assuring that high bandwidth will be available to more than 80% of the state population

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The Need for Speed: The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks

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Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network: Competency, Legibility, Context

Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network: Competency, Legibility, Context

Digital Literacies and the National Broadband Network: Competency, Legibility, Context

Infrastructure and Business Model for Universal Broadband Access in Developing Regions: The Ceara State Digital Belt

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