Yes, I also think that broadband delivery is critical in compensating for part of international transit costs. Beyond that, the problem is that of too much dependency on contents produced in so-called developed countries. The ability to boost loca...
Definitely! Perhaps the best way to proceed would consist in establishing a typology of countries i.e. identifying a target cost for a given group of countries (put together on the basis of similar characteristics like GDP/inhabitant, topology of ...
I agree that cost is the central issue, whether talking about last mile access or backhaul. So it is necessary to find ways to drive costs down: this means we have to tackle problems susch as energy scarcity, price of equipments, possible lack of ...
Hi Bruno,
There is currently a discussion in the Low Cost Information Access Devices group on Issues on Applying low cost information technologies to foster development . You are invited to make input to the discussions.