OECD – BROADBAND
February 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE ORGANISATION for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has called on its developed country governments to do more to encourage broadband rollout, saying particular emphasis was needed on expanding services to remote and rural areas. Its detailed report said government's needed to encourage as many technical means as possible to achieve this end, treating different technologies neutrally. This would help new wireless systems provide "competition for existing platforms and viable business models for extending broadband to small ...
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