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Mobile broadband: Pricing and services

08-Jul-2009

Mobile broadband growth is significant in markets where data are available. Although data is not yet easily available, this paper provides an overview of prices, speeds and data caps of mobile broadband services.

ENUM: Converging telephone numbers and addresses in next generation networks

01-Jul-2009

This paper provides an overview of developments in numbering, naming and addressing in the context of Next Generation Networks (NGN) with a focus on ENUM (tElephone NUmber Mapping). ENUM comprises a diverse set of standards and non-standardised mechanisms for transforming public telephone numbers into unique domain names.

Broadband over power lines (BPL): Developments and policy issues

01-Jul-2009

BPL technology seems to have a high potential to provide ubiquitous broadband access to households and businesses across a country. The fact that electricity is provided on a nationwide basis seemingly gives BPL an advantage.

The Role of Digital Identity Management in the Internet Economy

29-Jun-2009

This primer aims to provide policy makers a broad-brush understanding of the various dimensions of digital identity management (IdM). Consistent with the Seoul Ministerial Declaration, it also aims to support efforts to address public policy issues for securely managing and protecting digital identities, with a view to strengthening confidence in the online activities crucial to the growth of the Internet Economy.

OECD holds government discussion session on the Future of News

19-Jun-2009

As traditional newspapers are under ever greater pressure and as new forms of online news are merging, the OECD Working Party on the Information Economy invited experts to discuss the future of news and the role of the Internet.


Events

Ask the economists: Internet and development - towards a Wider World Web?

on 21-Feb-2008

What benefits would the Internet bring to the developing world? And what impact would the arrival of several billion new users have on the Internet as we know it today? Click here to read the questions and answers from this online debate with OECD economist Sam Paltridge.

Ask the economists: Grappling with the world's new IT giants

on 20-Nov-2006

Can China and India maintain their impressive IT growth rate? What can developed economies do to meet these challenges? Click to see the questions and answers from the online debate on this issue.



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