Posts Tagged ‘Digital technology’


Glossary

2G Second generation of mobile telephony systems. Uses digital transmission to support voice, low-speed data communications, and short messaging services. 2.5G In mobile telephony, 2.5G protocols extend 2G systems to provide additional features such as packet-switched connections (GPRS) and higher-speed data communications. 3G Third generation of mobile systems. Provides high-speed data transmission and supports multimedia [...]

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Section 5.3 – Online Safeguards

There are many reasons why people choose not to engage with digital technology, but lack of confidence is often a significant factor. As in the case of crime off-line, perceptions and fear of the prevalence of fraud, identity theft and other online crime often run ahead of their actual incidence.  Many people lack the knowledge [...]

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Section 4.2 – Driving Universal Connectivity: Take-up

Much of the focus in this interim report so far has been on network capability, resilience and business models. These are necessary elements, but not at the heart of what will impel those who only use digital technology occasionally to make it central to their lives, still less to those who do not appreciate or [...]

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Section 3.3 – Investment in Content: Original UK Content

The migration to the new digital world vastly increases the amount of content and applications at our disposal. Digital technology extends choice: wholly-market based operators such as BSkyB offer innovative distribution platforms, aggregating hundreds of digital channels, including their own content across programme areas such as 24-hour news and the Arts that were previously considered [...]

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Section 1 – Introduction and Executive Summary

Around the world digital and broadband technologies are reshaping our Communications, Entertainment, Information and Knowledge industries, the wider economy, and the way of life for all of us. We are at a point of transformation.  The success of our manufacturing and services industries will increasingly be defined by their ability to use and develop digital [...]

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