Local government broadband policies for areas with limited Internet access

Competition Analysis of Backbone and Local Access for Broadband Internet

Security for Broadband Internet Access Users

BROADBAND ACCESS METHODS High-speed access is becoming increasingly popular for connecting to the Internet and to corporate networks. The term “high-speed” is generally taken to mean transfer speeds above the 56Kbps of analog modems, or the 64 to 128Kbps speeds of ISDN. There are a number of technologies that provide transfer rates from 256Kbps to 1.544Mbps and beyond. Some offer asymmetrical u...

The role of government in broadband access

This paper discusses the role of governments in broadband. It is divided into five sections. Following an introduction in section one, section two discusses the diffusion of broadband Internet. Section three deals with competition-based and public-goods views on regulation and the corresponding roles and issues for governments. To gain deeper insights into the role of government in broadband, s...

History-Based Access Control with Local Policies

An extension of the λ-calculus is proposed, to study historybased access control. It allows for security policies with a possibly nested, local scope. We define a type and effect system that, given a program, extracts a history expression, i.e. a correct approximation to the set of histories obtainable at run-time. Validity of history expressions is non-regular, because the scope of policies ca...

The Impact of Australia's Government Policy on Broadband Internet Access: An Australian Experience

The Australian government has recognised the importance of broadband for their social and economic development. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of policy issues on broadband Internet access in Australia. This research has clearly indicated that the state of broadband Internet access is closely related to the Government’s policy and regulatory framework. The Government bas...