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Bandwidth Is the Oxygen of the Internet

SYS-CON Media (press release) -
The report finds Sweden, Norway, and Denmark at the top of the heap, with 80+ percent broadband access, followed closely by Finland and Germany. One can imagine it's easier to deploy bandwidth to a Scandinavia's small, generally urbanized populations ...

City in Louisiana blazes high-speed Internet trail

Daily Comet -
Once a broadband leader, the USA has slipped to 15th in a poll by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that ranks countries according to the percentage of households and businesses using broadband, falling behind Finland, France, ...

Strategy Analytics: Mobile Broadband Speeds Increasing Dramatically; LTE ...

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) -
This rapid growth comes from the recent move to 4G or LTE technology in many countries, including Austria, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the USA. The number of tariffs in the fastest ...

Mobile broadband speeds increasing dramatically

TechJournal South -
Average advertised maximum download speed has increased dramatically over the last 3 months, due to LTE deployment and 3G upgrades to HSPA/HSPA+ technologies, according to a new report, “Mobile broadband - prices falling while download speed and ...

Louisiana city blazes high-speed Web trail

Tucson Citizen -
Once a broadband leader, the USA has slipped to 15th in a poll by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that ranks countries according to the percentage of households and businesses using broadband, falling behind Finland, France, ...

Finland's first state aid paid to Karvia's broadband project

Telecompaper (subscription) -
Finland's telecom authority Ficora has paid the first state aids for the purpose of building ultra-high speed broadband infrastructure in sparsely-populated areas. The company that is receiving the first aid totalling EUR 334824 is Suupohjan ...

Finland's broadband faster, more affordable in cities

Telecompaper (subscription) -
Finland's big city dwellers are more likely to have fast and fixed internet connections than Finns who live in rural areas, according to telecom regulator Ficora's market review on the consumers' use of internet connections in 2011.

Two US Venues Make Intelligent Communities List

Communications Technology -
Today, the city is building a tech-based economy that seizes the opportunities of the broadband revolution. A nonprofit, Smart Riverside, focuses on technology initiatives, and a CEO Forum of local tech companies has produced a plan for tech-based ...

Getting caught in the Web: High-speed Internet still eludes many

Beaver Dam Daily Citizen -
It's a divide that he said does not exist in many other nations, such as Finland and South Korea, where efforts are being made to ensure the availability of broadband service for everyone. "I believe broadband should be a right," he said.

Nokia Siemens Plans 4100 Job Cuts In Germany, Finland

Wall Street Journal -
"The company plans to significantly realign its operations in Germany to fit with its new focused strategy to become a leading mobile broadband and services company," Nokia Siemens Networks said in the statement. In Finland, the plan is to cut about ...

MTS Selected Teleste to Equip their Nationwide Digital TV Infrastructure

Sacramento Bee -
By Teleste Teleste Corporation, a leading technology and engineering service provider of broadband video and service platforms, and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS"), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announced deployment of ...

MTS Selected Teleste To Equip Their Nationwide Digital TV

Digital Broadcasting (press release) -
Teleste Corporation, a leading technology and engineering service provider of broadband video and service platforms, and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC ("MTS"), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announced deployment of the Teleste ...

UK Producer Prices (January)

FXstreet.com -
Group items, Capital expenditure is expected to be up to US$400 million, of which approximately US$50 million is related to the Bahamas as it makes further investments in the mobile and fixed broadband networks and integrating IT infrastructure with ...

Twitter: Now You Can Tweet By Satellite

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Mashable -
That can be helpful in low or no-bandwidth situations such as political upheavals or regional emergencies. So far, Twitter has set up long codes for users in the UK, Germany and Finland. Long codes are limited to outgoing tweets only.

EBU Pushes Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband TV

TV Technology -
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The European Broadcasting Union is offering members generic applications to deploy hybrid broadcast/broadband TV, or HbbTV, during the London Olympics and the Eurovision Song Contest, when audiences peak.

High-speed broadband cheapest in Stockholm

The Swedish Wire -
Companies in Stockholm have access to the cheapest high-speed broadband in Europe, according to a new report. The importance of fast internet in knowledge-intensive economies was also outlined in the survey which was conducted on behalf of the City of ...

Austin, Texas, Riverside, Calif., Among World`s Most Intelligent Cities

eWeek -
By Nathan Eddy on 2012-01-26 Austin, Texas, joined counterparts from across the globe—including Finland, Canada and Taiwan—as the most intelligent cities in the world, according to the Intelligent Community Forum.

2011 a good year for Imtech: EBITA +11%, revenue +14%, order book +12 ...

Reuters -
Finland is showing further growth. Sweden has, relatively speaking, been hit harder by the euro crisis, but is still showing healthy development.

Technology Biz Roundup: Nokia and AOL Slash Jobs, Akamai Blazes Up

Wall St. Cheat Sheet -
By Tanya Harding Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will cut 4000 jobs at plants in Finland, Hungary and Mexico in order to lower costs and help get products to market more quickly.

Weekly Review of Events Involving Slovenia, 4-10 Feb

STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija (subscription) -
HELSINKI, Finland - Finnish broadcaster YLE ran a sequel to the notorious 2008 Truth About Patria report, revealing that a former adviser of the Finnish defence contractor, Erkki Heinilä, was the source for the bribery accusations against Slovenian PM ...
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