The participation society and its inability to correct the failure of market players to deliver adequate service levels in rural areas

This paper critically reviews the ‘participation society’ inspired policy measures of two Dutch provinces (Drenthe and Groningen) for providing rural broadband. Based on a database with broadband initiatives, interviews with stakeholders, focus groups and document analysis, it analyzes how rural broadband initiatives and regional governments interact in their ventures to provide superfast broadband to rural communities. Essential in this is that in the Dutch participation society concept, citizens' initiatives are seen as an important actor to deal with failing service delivery by market players in rural areas. The relation between regional governments and citizens' initiatives, however, is troublesome, resulting in inadequate policies. Key findings are that even when governments come up with supportive policies for citizens' initiatives, initiatives still experience governmental efforts as constraining factors. Regional governments apply ‘old style’ governance and construct generic policy instruments, forcing initiatives to put a lot of effort in complying with generic policy requirements or political goals. Overall, solving a national market problem at the regional level proves to be problematic. More national guidance is needed to solve the rural broadband gap.     

Fibre-to-the-home,high-speed and national broadband plans: Tales from Down Under

In recent years governments in many countries have acknowledged the higher complexity involved in finding the more efficient path towards a so-called broadband ecosystem. As the first decade of the twenty first century was ending, the governments of Australia and New Zealand committed to the construction of high-speed, fibre-optics next-generation access networks. This paper is about the approach followed by Australia and New Zealand to developing broadband infrastructure, the means deployed to build the network, and policy and market issues. The paper critically analyses the short history of each experience, including the political process, the reasons exhibited to justify the governments' involvement in infrastructure deployment, and the institutional arrangements introduced to manage the participation of private partners. The paper proposes a framework for analysis and uses its elements to critically analyse policy and regulatory decisions affecting the deployment rate and goals set by Australian and New Zealand government for their respective fibre-based next-generation platforms. The framework is used to draw comparisons between the two country cases and in so doing allowing the appreciation of commonalities and differences in the development and expectations for the future of telecommunications markets in the region.     

宽带认证计费系统融合方案与设计

随着中国电信业的改革和重组,中国联通与中国网通的业务支撑系统面临着重大的改造,相应的宽带业务平台也面临融合的问题。本文作者结合自己多年的实际工作经验对宽带认证计费系统融合相关问题进行分析探讨。     

试论宽带薪酬在地勘类事业单位的应用

事业单位的薪酬制度普遍存在着论资排辈、"吃大锅饭"、平均主义等不良现象。地勘单位作为事业单位,加强薪酬制度建设,推行岗位绩效工资制,吸引更多优秀人才,以适应市场竞争的客观要求,是当前地勘单位亟待落实的一项任务。     

LTE宽带集群通信技术发展及应用

LTE技术在宽带数字集群通信中的应用,已经成为通信领域的研究热点。本文结合集群通信系统发展需求和现状,分析了LTE宽带集群技术面临的挑战,阐述了解决关键技术的方法。     

Broadband Policy: Industry Planning and the Public Interest

Public interest regulation protects society by constraining private economic power, and it promotes the construction of essential infrastructure facilities. The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) broadband plan supports the deployment of broadband service and the maintenance of an open Internet. The paper uses Harry M. Trebing’s public interest paradigm to evaluate the FCC’s broadband plan.     

Discrete Choice Analysis of Demand for Broadband in Japan

The remarkable development of Japan’s broadband (BB) market has attracted attention worldwide. This paper is one of the first to analyze Japan’s BB demand (including FTTH) using a discrete choice model. Our main conclusions are first, there is a distinction between narrowband (NB) and BB services based on a nested choice structure. Second, considering own-price elasticities of access demand, ADSL is inelastic, but FTTH and CATV are elastic. Third, in ADSL submarkets, low-speed and high-speed ADSL are becoming more elastic.     

流媒体技术及应用

互联网的宽带化发展为流媒体技术的产生和发展提供了强大的动力和广阔的应用空间。流媒体技术将广泛应用于互联网上的多媒体新闻发布、视频点播、电子商务、远程教育、视频会议等网络信息服务的方方面面。本文将从流媒体的概念、技术体系、应用前景等方面分别进行阐述。由于音/视频文件一般很大,受网络带宽的限制,下载需较长时间。运用流媒体技术,音/视频文件通过服务器向用户实时传送并播放,用户只需几秒时间延迟便可进行观看,具有非常明显的优势。