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Best Practices and Strategies for Broadband Deployment: Lessons learned from around the World

Best Practices and Strategies for Broadband Deployment: Lessons learned from around the World

Christos Bouras, Apostolos Gkamas, Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781609600112|ISBN10: 1609600118|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781609600129|EISBN13: 9781609600136
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-011-2.ch008
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Bouras, Christos, et al. "Best Practices and Strategies for Broadband Deployment: Lessons learned from around the World." Adoption, Usage, and Global Impact of Broadband Technologies: Diffusion, Practice and Policy, edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 128-142. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-011-2.ch008

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Bouras, C., Gkamas, A., & Tsiatsos, T. (2011). Best Practices and Strategies for Broadband Deployment: Lessons learned from around the World. In Y. Dwivedi (Ed.), Adoption, Usage, and Global Impact of Broadband Technologies: Diffusion, Practice and Policy (pp. 128-142). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-011-2.ch008

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Bouras, Christos, Apostolos Gkamas, and Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos. "Best Practices and Strategies for Broadband Deployment: Lessons learned from around the World." In Adoption, Usage, and Global Impact of Broadband Technologies: Diffusion, Practice and Policy, edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi, 128-142. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-011-2.ch008

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Abstract

Broadband deployment is a necessity nowadays. It could help each country, municipality and region to grow and offer better quality of life to the citizens. Today, the emphasis on the development of broadband networks is on fixed Fibre To The Home solutions The lessons learned from countries that are leaders in broadband penetration and Fibre To The Home deployment could be proven very useful for under-served communities, regions and countries where the broadband penetration is low. Therefore, this chapter summarises the lessons learned from implementing (a) country-wide strategies formulated at the national level, and (b) local strategies formulated by the municipalities. Concerning the role of national and local governments, it should be noted that nowadays it is very urgent the involvement of government in the development of broadband infrastructure. Proposed noteworthy remarkable cases are Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

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