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Min Kao Building, Room 433
1520 Middle Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-225 Email: mbeck at utk.edu Office: (865) 974-3548 Fax: (865) 974-5483 My vita. |
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Associate Professor Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Sci. University of Tennessee, Knoxville | |
Is Universal Broadband Service Impossible?
Broadband Internet service is widely expected to be the fundamental universal service for the 21st century. But more than a decade of national and international struggles to close the digital divide between broadband haves and have nots suggest that reaching global universality will be a very difficult task. This paper argues that the strong guarantees made by the current broadband paradigm - low latency and constant availability - are unnecessary obstacles to its adoption as an affordable and universal digital service. We show that there is nonetheless a plausible strategy for deploying a Basic Broadband service that does not require such guarantees and is able to offer, at reasonable cost, almost all the critical and valuable services and applications currently delivered over low latency broadband, synchronous telepresence excepted.
Is Universal Broadband Service Impossible?
Micah Beck, Terry Moore
IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2022). Denver, CO. Oct 19-21, 2022.
A discussion on The Hedge podcast #150.
Universal Digital Services Through Basic Broadband
Micah Beck, Terry Moore
arXiv:2107.12269, July 2021
