Mobile Broadband Community Centers

Abstract

Broadband is essential to reap the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), since it provides the fast, always-on connection needed to access the Internet. However, many economies in Asia, Latin-America, Eastern Europe, the Middle-East, and Africa, are still in the early stages of broadband adoption, with penetrations below one to two percent. Alcatel-Lucent has developed a “broadband for all” vision and enabling solutions to help service providers in high-growth economies transform their services, networks and businesses, and take advantage of the latest technologies and business models to profitably increase broadband footprint and achieve mass-arket broadband growth.