Global Broadband Access – Case Study – Networking Assignment

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Networking Assignment:

All historical accounts agree that the Internet was birthed in the United States. If this is true, does the U.S. continue to be the world foremost user of the network that it created? The answer to this question depends on how you look at the numbers. According to the OECD (Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development), the U.S. continues to be one of the world frontrunners in both fixed and mobile broadband subscriptions for Internet access. However, when viewed on a per capita or population percentage basis, there is considerable evidence that the average citizen in many of other highly developed nations around the world is more likely than the average American to have broadband access to the Internet. Although more than two-thirds of U.S. households have broadband Internet access,
America’s broadband penetration rate lags that for many other countries  Recent research indicates that Bulgaria has the highest level of broadband adoption; it has an adoption rate of 96 percent. South Korea leads the world in average broadband connection speeds (16.7 Mbps). Although 81% of the broadband connections in the U.S. had connection speeds of 2 Mbps or more, 35 other countries had higher percentages in 2011. The U.S. is 13th place worldwide in average broadband connection speeds  On a per capita basis, as of January 2012, European nations led the world in both fixed and mobile broadband adoption. At that time, twenty-six of every hundred citizens (26%) in European Union (EU) nations had fixed broadband connections while 54 of every 100 (54%) EU residents had a mobile broadband connection [WEBS12]. The Netherlands led all countries worldwide with 38.1 fixed broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants. Switzerland and Denmark are not behind. South Korea led Asian nations in fixed broadband connections with a 35.7% penetration rate. The US was
16th with a 27.6% fixed bandwidth penetration rate. Mobile access to the Web continues to grow. At the beginning of 2012, there were over 5.9 billion mobile subscribers worldwide. Of these, 1.2 billion were active users of mobile broadband services, according to a 2011 survey performed on behalf of the (ITU) International Telecommunications Union [WEBS12]. At that time, 90% of the world’s population had access to second generation (2G) broadband, while 45% of the world could access third-generation (3G) services. In the U.S., there
were more than 203 million mobile broadband users in 2011. India and China have the fastest growing populations of mobile users, but South Korea and Japan have the highest percentages of mobile broadband users with respective penetration rates of 91% and 88%
[MOBI12]. According to the OECD, the U.S. ranks seventh in mobile broadband penetration with a rate of nearly 66% [OECD11]. In terms of broadband access speeds, cities in South Korea and Japan dominate other population centres around the world. Although 23 U.S. cities
made it into the global top 100 list for broadband access speeds in 2011, none made the top 10 Citizens in the Romanian city of Timi?oara enjoyed the highest peak broadband access speeds at 41.5 Mbps.

Questions:

1) Identify several countries that have benefitted from national broadband infrastructure initiatives and briefly summarize the programs that they implemented.

2) The U.S. Briefly summarize the content of pending or recently passed legislation or executive initiatives to bring broadband Internet access to more U.S. citizens.

3) Summarize which segments of the population are most at risk for being digital “have-nots”. Identify efforts being made to address the digital divide within the U.S.

4) What patterns can be observed across these countries? How can these low rates be explained?

5) What do users like most about higher connection speeds and how does it improve their lives?

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