[governance] Efficient Spectrum Management + Efficient Networks = Access ?

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

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.



On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:51 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

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> Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
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>
>  Article interesting on Mobile Broadband Spectrum Shortage requires
>> immediate action, see: http://www.iccwbo.org/**
>> policy/ebitt/index.html?id=**46201<http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/ebitt/index.html?id=46201> It's
>> relevance to internet governance is that Spectrum is a factor in terms of
>> access for consumers etc
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Only one of the four networks has a product which does that, yet.
>
> 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?
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