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Telecommunications Vint Cerf urges Pacific Islands to collaborate for Internet access
Telecommunications Vint Cerf urges Pacific Islands to collaborate for Internet access | Vint Cerf urges Pacific Islands to collaborate for Internet access |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 04 June 2008 | |
  
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He added: "The variations [in access to Internet] in the Pacific Islands are very wide but nothing is more important than getting all islands online and actively participating. It enables a local island economy to reach out and take advantage of parts of the world were Internet is already actively in use, You can create opportunities for work on the islands. The video was produced as an invitation to the forthcoming annual conference of the Pacific Islands chapter of the Internet Society to be held in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands in September 2008. And Cerf suggested that the potential collaboration should be pursued as part of the discussions at PacINET 2008. Meanwhile, UK based conference organiser Informa is hosting, in Sydney in July its inaugural Oceania Com Telecoms Conference examining How telecoms services among the 30 Pacific Island nations and territories can be improved. Informa notes that access to basic telecom services is relatively expensive, that less than half of all Pacific Islanders have a phone, and generally have only one supplier for any particular fixed, mobile or Internet service. However, this lack of reliable fixed infrastructure combined with cheaper installation costs has enabled mobile services to make significant inroads into the market and, it says, several island nations are upgrading satellite links to outer islands, installing wireless broadband and upgrading fixed-line broadband capability, with some rolling out ADSL2+. Details at |
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