Applications of Broadband
Description:
Commercial and practical uses of the broadband connections: high speed internet - telephone - television (for instance Versatel in the Netherlands), communications - Information seeking - Information producing - Download - Transactions - Entertainment activities
Enablers:
- Speed
- Improvement of hardware bottlenecks
- Encryption systems (security)
- Increasing demand for e-commerce
- Internet & Broadband penetration
- Increasing credible and relevant business model
- Positive feedback loops around reliable e-business supplier
- .Net technology
Inhibitors:
- Copyrights
- Security
- Internet vandalism (viruses/ spams)
- Difficulty to change shopping habit, need for physical contact with product, specialised product (prescription glasses)
- Creative response from traditional retailers (transform street shopping as a hobby)
- Some services are technology immune, they force people in the shopping streets
Paradigms:
Changes in ways of thinking about the world due to the driving force.
Experts:
Timing:
Dates for key milestones in the development of the driving force.