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25-Apr-2006
The rollout of broadband Internet connectivity has allowed telecommunication, cable and satellite operators to offer an increasingly similar service blend of video, voice and data to subscribers. This paper sets out to provide an overview of developments across OECD countries in multiple play (triple play) services and some of the policy issues which may appear as more operators offer converged services. The analysis covers 87 firms in the 30 OECD countries. The appendix offers package and pricing details for 2-3 providers in each country.
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13-Apr-2006
This paper provides an overview of the market for secondary domain names. Secondary domain name registrations and the growing markets for targeted Internet search advertising have given rise to a range of new practices and business models on the Internet.
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13-Apr-2006
RFID touches on several regulatory and/or policy issues with potentially wide-ranging social, economic, as well as national security implications, including international trade, intellectual property rights, standards, spectrum, security, and privacy.
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11-Apr-2006
In little more than a decade, following commercialisation, the Internet has become a critical and integral part of economic and social life. This has been made possible by the phenomenally successful growth of the Internet, as a network of networks. In 2005 more than 20 000 networks with independent routing policies provided connectivity for themselves and many millions of their customers' networks, supporting close to a billion users around the world.
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14-Sep-2004
The commercialisation of Third Generation (3G) mobile services in the OECD has been delayed for a number of reasons. These include the delay in delivery of 3G terminal equipment, other technological problems and the financial crises affecting the telecommunications industry. However, during 2003 commercialisation of 3G services began to accelerate in a number of OECD countries.
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The OECD has released its policy response to the challenge of maximising the benefits of broadband Internet services for economic and social development.
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28-May-2003
The 2003 edition of the OECD Communications Outlook has been released. Click here for more information.
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20-May-2003
Confidence is slowly returning to the telecommunications sector after the "boom and bust" years of the 1990s, according to a special chapter titled "After the telecommunicatinos bubble" in the OECD Economic Outlook No. 73.
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15-Apr-2003
Wireless technology provides business executives, office workers, small businesses and residential users with expanded opportunities to connect to the Internet outside the limited area dictated by fixed networks.
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09-Apr-2003
The aim of this paper is to provide comparative information on the administration of domain names across the OECD area.
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