Keeping the Internet up and running in times of crisis

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, demand for broadband communication services has soared, with some operators experiencing as much as a 60% increase in Internet traffic compared to before the crisis. In the medium term, regulators could stimulate broadband providers to deploy more fibre deeper into the networks and gradually phase out xDSL technologies, where possible, and alleviate administrative burdens to ease network deployment.

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Year of publication:	2020
Institutions:	OECD (issuing body)
Publisher:	Paris : OECD Publishing
Subject:	Coronavirus \| Internet \| Telekommunikationsnetz \| Telecommunications network \| Nachrichtentechnik \| Telecommunications engineering \| Welt \| World

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (6 p.)
Series:	OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1787/4017c4c9-en [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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