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ICTP supports uplifting new technology development

October 7, 2015 • admin

In a letter from the book, “Green Growth and Travelism – Letters from Leaders,” Frank McCosker shows how the net technology revolutionises the best way people travel and the way the disruptive technology, “Super Wi-Fi,” can actually provide the much-needed cheap and seamless access to the web.

This “Super Wi-Fi” technology leverages unused TV spectrum to supply Internet access at broadband styles of speed. Its main advantages are that it will possibly cover distances anywhere between three and ten times more than those covered by existing unlicensed wireless solutions and that its signal is way less impeded by obstructions similar to walls and buildings.

The Super Wi-Fi won’t only reduce the digital divide between rural and concrete areas, in addition between developed and not more-developed countries, at a reasonable price, it might probably also achieve this sustainably. Indeed, base stations may be designed to run on wind or solar energy, therefore, making a green and sustainable broadband solution.

As expanding connectivity goes hand in hand with expanding tourism, such disruptive innovation is primordial. McCosker predicts that universal access to broadband can be probably the most important drivers of business growth supporting the expansion of inbound and outbound tourism inside the coming decade.

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