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Chapter 8
Best Practices and Strategies
for Broadband Deployment:
Lessons Learned from Around the World
Christos Bouras
University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Apostolos Gkamas
Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
ABSTRACT
Broadband deployment is a necessity nowadays. It could help each country, municipality and region to
grow and offer better quality of life to the citizens. Today, the emphasis on the development of broad-
band networks is on fixed Fibre To The Home solutions The lessons learned from countries that are
leaders in broadband penetration and Fibre To The Home deployment could be proven very useful for
under-served communities, regions and countries where the broadband penetration is low. Therefore,
this chapter summarises the lessons learned from implementing (a) country-wide strategies formulated
at the national level, and (b) local strategies formulated by the municipalities. Concerning the role of
national and local governments, it should be noted that nowadays it is very urgent the involvement of
government in the development of broadband infrastructure. Proposed noteworthy remarkable cases
are Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
INTRODUCTION
speed and opens up a seemingly limitless gamut
of possibilities (Langdale, 1997).
Broadband networks will be as critical to the
21st century as roads, canals, and railroads were
to the 19th Century and the Interstate Highway
System and basic telephone networks were to
the 20th Century (Copps, 2001; OECD, 2001).
In addition, broadband is a key element of the
Broadband technology has emerged as the natu-
ral next step in Internet evolution and diffusion
(Papacharissi & Zaks, 2006). With dialup connec-
tions limiting bandwidth and therefore, Internet
applications, broadband technology promises high
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