Although attention has been given to how broadband access is related to economic development in rural areas, scant consideration has been given to how it may be associated with voluntary participation. This issue is important in that numerous studies have shown how much more vital community participation is in rural areas as compared to suburban and urban places. Drawing on three diverse data s...

There has been a lively debate surrounding the Australian Governments plan to build a fibre-based National Broadband Network. Unfortunately, a variety of urban myths about the NBN have evolved and spread over the past 12 months. Some of these myths are based on misunderstandings of the capabilities and limitations of broadband technology and some are out of alignment with experience in countrie...

High-speed internet access is a becoming a greater necessity for people to participate in today’s economy. However, even though broadband networks have been greatly expanded, there are still areas that do not have access. This study examines the extent to which Winona County, Minnesota is connected to the internet via broadband connection and the opportunities for expanding broadband penetratio...

This paper describes the deployment of residential broadband networks by relating two parallel but contrasting stories. Story 1 considers network providers’ search for a killer application to drive demand for broadband networks, while Story 2 suggests that consumers have already found a killer application in e-mail and basic connectivity. It appears that residential broadband networks are curre...

The development towards ubiquitous network access requires innovative solutions to get remote areas included, especially rural areas of developing regions. We report on recent progress in the Serengeti Broadband Network, one of the first pilots established in the Tanzania ICT for Rural Development programme with the mission to design and validate a method to establish sustainable broadband mark...

Municipal wireless network is a recently established infrastructure of city-based wireless network, which provides mainly outdoor broadband wireless access to Internet for public usages. The municipal network is usually regarded as a public-utility service, which not only delivers well connected broadband services in the city at an affordable price but also promotes society interaction and brin...

Broadband microstrip filter operating within 1.5GHz bandwidth at UHF range for RF communication systems has been designed, simulated, and implemented using a practical network parameter method. The design has been performed using the network parameter method with ABCD parameters, which simplified the analysis significantly. The analytical, simulated and measured results have been compared and e...

1 João Paulo Ribeiro Pereira, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia Apartado 134 5301-857 Bragança – Portugal, [email protected] 2 José Adriano Pires, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia Apartado 134 5301-857 Bragança – Portugal, [email protected] Abstract ⎯ Broadband technologies have view great growth over the past decade....