This is an amazing future, since it can have HDTV, telephony, fax, voice mail, email, web accessing, videoconferencing, etc., i.e., almost everything at that speed. Only missing during the Nokia presentation was the question of who is going to provide such broadband Internet backbone. They then indicated that they would be willing to work with our project of establishing global wireless broadband Internet. My application was declined saying that I should have had a license to use the wireless unit. Consequently, I would like to request the InfoDev to upgrade the quality and capability of their peer group members in such a way that the grant application will be evaluated fairly.
Internet is the future of telecommunication.
Broadband Internet is the inevitable need. However, none talks about the similar upgrading internationally, i.e., among countries across oceans and continents for distance learning and healthcare, hence creating bottlenecks with congestion that cause barriers for the deployment of such humanitarian activities. I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly appeal this necessity to the board of the InfoDev. Although I do not work in the distance learning field, I found the Tampere meeting to be very interesting. Indeed, it was quite stimulating to be among a group of educators who are committed to tackling the challenges of providing affordable distance learning on a global scale.