Yes I also watched on Telecom TV something about Wifi being the solution as not only indoor but outdoor as well. It was at a Broadband Conference in Paris and one of the Providers, I may have sent the link or tweeted it - can't remember.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Roland Perry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roland@internetpolicyagency.com">roland@internetpolicyagency.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
In message <CAJwbTiB_<u></u>K5UvUf0AcYLXxpavfWOpTJAxyJ7J3=<a href="mailto:WQvs6FrRNVdA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank"><u></u>WQvs6FrRNVdA@mail.gmail.com</a>>, at 01:36:19 on Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@<u></u>gmail.com</a>> writes<div class="im">
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Article interesting on Mobile Broadband Spectrum Shortage requires immediate action, see: <a href="http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/ebitt/index.html?id=46201" target="_blank">http://www.iccwbo.org/<u></u>policy/ebitt/index.html?id=<u></u>46201</a> It's relevance to internet governance is that Spectrum is a factor in terms of access for consumers etc<br>
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I was at a meeting in UK Parliament last week where the mobile networks admitted (for the UK at least) that available spectrum and base-station rollout were limiting factors in the ability to provide multi-gigabyte-per-month mobile Internet access to subscribers.<br>
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And that 4G wasn't going to cure it, merely paper over the cracks for a few years. The solution seemed to be handing off traffic to wifi points (with a subscription included with your mobile) whenever possible.<br>
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Only one of the four networks has a product which does that, yet.<br>
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The governance question is perhaps: does freedom of expression *require* that everyone (and I do mean everyone, on average) downloads a gigabyte of YouTube to their mobile every month, or is a few tens of megabytes of email and website browsing sufficient to qualify for that?<br>
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Roland Perry<br>
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