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Current situation : Broadband as a transformational technology

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Current situation : Broadband as a transformational technology

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  1. “In a paper published in 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing proved that a digital computer, which at the time existed only as a theoretical machine, could be programmed to perform the function of any other information-processing device. And that’s what we’re seeing today. The Internet, an immeasurably powerful computing system, is subsuming most of our other intellectual technologies. It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.” — Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008

  2. Current situation: • Broadband as a transformational technology • Region 2000’s Technology-Based Economic Development Program • Parallels between Early 20th century and Early 21stcentury • The dilemma

  3. Possible approaches to deliver broadband: Status Quo – the “laissez-faire“ approach Vertical Integration – the “public utility” approach Public/Private Partnership – the “overcoming barriers” approach

  4. Overcoming barriers to areas unserved by broadband: • Managing of risk • Capital equipment financing • Access to existing or potential vertical • assets (sites and locations) • Availability and access to low-cost • transport network (backhaul)

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