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South Africa endorses best practices for broadband development policy
South Africa’s goal is to bring a minimum of 5Mbps Internet access to half its population by 2016 and 90% by 2020, with 100% of school, medical and government sites getting at least 10 Mbps by then....
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Linux marches to the beat of broadband growth
Most of the world’s personal computers run on Microsoft Windows. Gartner, a tech industry research group, says that the 280 million Windows boxes shipped last year swamped 12.5 million Macs and 2.9...
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Developing countries take the lead in global broadband adoption
Click for the report. By the end of the year, 3 billion people will be on the Internet, according to the latest projections by the International Telecommunications Union. Of those, three-quarters will...
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Monopoly broadband network problems are common, solutions are not
Better markets attract better supply. Everywhere. It’s not just best practices for broadband development policy that’s common to countries and communities, regardless of location or circumstance. Lack...
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ET could have phoned home faster on fiber
In case you missed it, today was World UFO Day, a good time to pause and reflect on why strange things happen. There’s no dispute that UFOs are real. Pretty much any night of the week – usually around...
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Mars is underserved
NASA is asking for private sector ideas to upgrade broadband infrastructure on Mars. Right now, there’s a 2 Mbps link between Earth and Mars orbit, and 500 Kbps between orbit and rovers on the...
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Mobile operators are short term cure, long term cause of broadband divide
Wireline upgrades get low priority on the wrong side of the divide. Mobile broadband networks are increasingly ubiquitous throughout the world, and are the most widely used way of accessing the...
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Perfect security is beyond the realm of science fiction
The cracks keep getting bigger. Around this time last year, we were worried about credit and debit card details being stolen from Target stores. Bad, but not bad enough it would seem to drive retailers...
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CES exhibit floor grows in size but not in global reach
The eyes of the world. The Consumer Electronics Associations warns journalists that it produces a global technology event called International CES and that none should dare speak the name Consumer...
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Billions to be spent replacing Iridium satellites – will the business fly...
A flood of cash was ploughed into building telecommunications systems in the 1990s, with generally bad results for the original investors. Some companies went through bankruptcy, but more or less came...
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