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 DTT: a global platform?
DTT has been a big winner in the analogue to digital transition environment. But where next? Interview with Simon Murray, Principal Analyst - Media at Informa Telecoms and Media on the global trends and futures for Digital Terrestrial Television. Audiocast below.
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 The outlook for DTT
Will DTT be squeezed by the lack of an evolving business model, or competitive triple play on the Internet, or gargantuan bandwidth demands of High Definition TV? Interview with Andrew Glasspool, Farncombe Consulting Group and experienced executive in the global DTT industry on plausible DTT futures. Audiocast below.
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 US broadband policy: the problems with incentives
Interview with Prof Rob Frieden, Penn State University on the difficulties of getting policy right. Audiocast available below.
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IP voice is at a tipping point internationally and next generation voice applications beckon, but will it force upheavals in the entire global telecom sector? more |
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Will be much more difficult than we think, say experts more |
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Satellite industry battles through onto unexpected growth more |
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Traditional telecom providers may lose out in the race to get to cloud communications more |
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Internet traffic continues to break records, says Telegeography more |
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Many organizations not ready, says Forum, and time is running out more |
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If only we could think of how important it is more |
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IIC Telecommunications and Media Forum Bahrain 2009
IIC Annual Conference 2009
IIC Telecommunications and Media Forum Washington 2009
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Resources A-I (Asia, Africa, Australasia, Bahrain, broadband policy and strategy, Canada, Carribean, China, competition law, content, Europe, France, Germany, innovation)
Resources I-S (intellectual property, Internet, Internet policy, Italy, Japan, Singapore)
Resources S-Z (spectrum management, telecom policy, television, UK, USA, wireless)
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Dr Raul Katz of the Columbia Business School, USA, compares national broadband policies across USA, Australia, Singapore, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, Ireland, Canada, Finland and New Zealand and concludes that most government-inspired rollout plans consist of one or more of three models, strategic planning, stimulus, or state intervention that are characterized both in terms of goal and intervention model. Slidecast available. |
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Dr Thomas Hazlett of George Mason University, USA, considers the perspectives of spectrum allocation policies particularly at the macro level and concludes that the mobile "tsunami" will sweep all before it in getting spectrum reallocated from TV. Slidecast available. |
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In her inaugural speech - given at the IIC Telecommunications and Media Forum in Washington in December 2009 - as Chief of the International Bureau at the FCC, Mindel De La Torre promised greater interaction with other countries and said that her job was to be an 'importer and exporter of best practices' from around the world, particularly in national broadband policy. Click for full text.
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