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(OECD), the Internet Society (ISOC) and UNESCO. The study was initially presented at the sixth annual meeting of the … Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 27 September 2011 in Nairobi (Kenya). The study confirms that local content, Internet … higher levels of local digital content creation; (ii) countries with more Internet infrastructure (at all income levels) are …
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In this study, we compare and contrast the U.S. and Korea in the context of network neutrality, focusing on debates among stakeholders and regulatory approaches. Interesting similarities and differences are highlighted by comparisons within the broadband ecosystem framework: government...
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The Internet ecosystem is rapidly and constantly expanding. In numerous sectors, the Internet has acted as a "black … Internet has dematerialized physical assets and services, lowered down of the production and distribution costs, strongly … order to cope with the disruptive effect of the Internet, firms have transferred their business online, adapted and evolved …
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For more than a decade the unbundling of telecommunications networks has been used as a regulatory means to stifle competition. However, despite its assumed positive effects on market entry and competition intensity, the negative effects on network investment incentives are widely shown in the...
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Under the two broad concepts of net neutrality and IP interconnection, it is not easy to distinguish the paid prioritization and paid peering. The prioritized service may be prohibited under a strict net neutrality rule while the paid peering may be a normal arrangement of commercial...
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The recently enacted "Civil Rights Framework for the Internet" (Marco Civil), is a Law that has set the grounds for … different Internet related rights in Brazil. Among its provisions are the ones related to network neutrality. Due to the … importance of the topic, as well as its relevance for the Internet ecosystem, this paper aims at analyzing net neutrality as per …
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Internet connectivity in approximately 100 countries between 2007 and 2014. While most advanced and developing countries have … adopted policies and regulations intended to enhance private sector incentives for the provision of Internet access … and analyzes patterns of regulatory design and their possible impact on the evolution of Internet access infrastructure …
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writing, lead to occasional (\Save our Internet!") street protests in various places. Similarly to Bauer and Obar (2014), this …
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This report presents a framework for analysing Internet openness, the factors that influence it, and its effects. It … also presents initial qualitative and quantitative evidence on the effects of Internet openness. Among the key findings are … that Internet openness consists of many technical, economic and social elements and that overall openness is vital for …
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Broadband access refers to technologies that provide access to the Internet at download speeds of 256 kbit/s or greater …
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