Global Broadband Review

Broadband Infrastructure Review

Objective

Our project Broadband Infrastructure Review has several objectives. First, we introduce broadband infrastructure in terms of different types of access technologies. Second, we apply Michael Porter's Diamond model to analyze the rather high growing broadband development in HK. Lastly, we attempt to conclude the major factors that shall be maintained or enhanced for HK to further boost its broadband development. One of the specials about our project is that we try to focus the analysis locally but we learn and thought from a worldwide perspective. In this survey, you would not only see the examination of Porter's Diamond model applied in local context but also much data and information about worldwide broadband developments, especially some learning and comparison with Korea and the US.

Broadband Definition by OFTA

Different organizations may have different definitions of broadband. But to be precise and practical, the most common meaning of broadband can be simply summarized as the capacity to transmit data at the rate of 1.5Mbps

Ciaoweb Free Internet Access

English: Availability of 4 Mbps-Capable Broadband ...

Map of Korea 대한민국전도 大韓民國全圖

or above using family of Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL), Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS), Fiber-to-the-Building (FTTB), cable modem or other technologies.

Nowadays, since the broadband is mostly used for connecting to the Internet, to most people broadband refers to a high speed connection to the Internet, in short, people call it Broadband Internet or Broadband Internet Access, which becomes a narrow but most popular definition of broadband.

I - Broadband Infrastructure Overview

Worldwide Broadband Development

After illustrating different kinds of broadband technologies, a systematic and brief study of worldwide broadband development is necessary to deepen our understanding of the topic. The paper has selected the broadband development of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries to study the worldwide broadband development. OECD is an international organization of industrialized, market-economy countries. In...