Broadband as a Video Platform Strategies for Africa /

This volume features contributions from a conference held in Lusaka, Zambia, to explore the role and prospects of broadband in Africa as a video platform—with emphasis on the strategies and building blocks for deployment and advancement. While it may seem that such networks and their applications ar...

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Weitere Verfasser: O'Neill, Judith. (HerausgeberIn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Noam, Eli M. (HerausgeberIn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gerbarg, Darcy. (HerausgeberIn, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
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Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2014.
Schriftenreihe:The Economics of Information, Communication, and Entertainment, The Impacts of Digital Technology in the 21st Century,
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