Future of Broadband

.The group that selects this topic as thiers please put your name and composition here!
.Then place your 20 research questions
.Then divide the questions amoungst the group and answer them in this page! (to be done for next week Thursday - 4 May)

With more that 100 million broadband users the underlying access technology of the internet is changing. This enables a new set of applications, new business models and the revisiting of old business models. People today spend four times as much time on the internet as in the heydays of 2000. Very different conceptions of broadband access. Several of the cable and television and telecoms companies see broadband as distribution means for, television, similar to the airwaves, but in this case allowing for pay for view access of the content, therefore would like high downstream speeds and low upstream speed. Internet companies (Google, Yahoo, Amazon) see this as interactive infrastructure and therefore want more synchronous (i.e. equal up and downstream speeds). The current debate of net neutrality, is the start of the coming painful convergence of television, music and telephony on the internet and IP as a base architecture. Useful places to look are:

Vint Cerf (at Google)
Broadband use statistics
Music Download models
Broadband providers
IP ver 6
Always On

Group 1: Edurne Ozaeta, Jacob Oskam, Murat ogat, Magali Bongrand

Look forward to seeing your work evolve group 1, take a look at some of the older future of Broadband scenario sets for inspiration!

Research Questions:

Useful links:

http://www.oecd.org/document/39/0,2340,en_2649_34223_36459431_1_1_1_1,00.html