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Broadband in Japan, May 2004

Download japanbbsubsMay04.xls

Number of broadband subscribers in Japan, end of May 2004.

DSL 11,819,177 (11,514,995)
Fiber 1,327,775 (1,240,935)
Cable 2,661,000 (2,623,000)
Total 15,807,952 (15,378,930)

More unlicensed spectrum

The Nikkei's reporting that next spring MPHPT will double the amount of unlicensed spectrum by allocating 355MHz in the 5GHz band. Unfortunately this still leaves Japan behind the US both in available spectrum and power.

Article here, http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/AC/TNKS/Nni20040630D30JFF03.htm (subscription required.)

WSIS and Internet governance (paper)

I've written a paper about Internet governance (PDF) for the Association for Progressive Communications.

The paper's intended as an introduction to the discussions about Internet governance in WSIS, and also makes some suggestions about how civil society can engage in the WSIS processes and also other ICT policy forums. And it's already out of date -- need to find some way to keep it current.