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  • Mijas pioneers wireless Internet connection in Spain

    The town of Mijas in Malaga has just launched a project which is the first of its kind in Spain: free, wireless WIMAX Internet connection for anyone living in the town and surrounding rural areas, as well as a new system of e-government with the launch of a web that will offer inhabitants of Mijas the possibility of carrying out all sorts of official transactions online.

  • Australia: Tech entrepreneur Dave Stevens slams National Broadband Network

    Calls for rural areas to be upgraded with improved satellite, wireless connections

    Wealthy IT entrepreneur Dave Stevens says the National Broadband Network is a waste of money and more attention should be put on improving connections in rural areas through technology, including wireless and satellite.

    The comments come as pressure builds on the Government to release a cost-benefits analysis for the massive infrastructure project, with entrepreneurs including TPG chief executive David Teoh and Wotif founder Graeme Wood calling for such a report.

  • Bahrain TRA proposes procedure for erection of wireless networks

    Representatives from the TRA, municipality and ministries discussions concluded with all agreeing on forming a working group to set procedure and standards for the erection of wireless networks.

    The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Chairman Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Al Amer along with TRA's General Director Mr. Alan Horne, Mr. Mohammed Mahmood TRA's Director of Technical and Operations and Mr. Basil Al Arrayed TRA's Director of Communications and Consumer Affairs today discussed wireless networks with Muharraq Municipality along with the Water and Electrical Authority, Environment Authority and a representative from the Ministry of Interior.

  • Bahrain: TRA seeks to promote wireless technologies

    The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is spearheading a campaign to promote wireless technologies.

    General director Alan Horne along with technical and operations director Mohammed Mahmood and communications and consumer affairs director Basil Al Arrayed met Southern and Muharraq municipal councils to discuss the benefits of wireless technologies in supporting employment and economic development in the kingdom.

  • Berliner Senat startet Tests für kostenloses Stadt-WLAN

    Der Berliner Senat hat ein Pilotprojekt genehmigt, mit dem die Stadt ein kostenloses WLAN-Netz testen will, berichtet die Berliner Morgenpost. Das Funknetz soll die westliche Innenstadt zwischen Kurfürstendamm und Tauentzien sowie den östlichen Teil zwischen Friedrichstraße und "Unter den Linden" versorgen, sagte Wirtschaftssenator Harald Wolf (Die Linke) gegenüber der Zeitung.

  • Breitband-Internet per Funk in Südostbayern

    In großen Teilen Südostbayerns besteht seit Samstag eine nahezu flächendeckende Breitband-Internetversorgung via Funktechnik, wie die Nachrichtenagentur dpa meldet. Das Netz der Televersa GmbH aus Töging reiche nach deren Angaben vom oberpfälzischen Schwandorf bis ins oberbayerische Freilassing sowie von Freising bis in den Bayerischen Wald. In der rund 20.000 Quadratkilometer großen Region leben nach Unternehmensangaben etwa zweieinhalb Millionen Menschen. In dem Gebiet könnten mit dem Funk-Internet 95 Prozent aller Haushalte und Unternehmen erreicht werden, während das kabelgebundene DSL in der Region nur 60 Prozent schaffe.

  • BSNL’s WiMAX services to provide broadband connectivity to rural India; offers competitive tariffs

    Broadband services market leader in India, BSNL is aiming to extend its lead further and penetrate into the untapped rural segment and keeping in line with this focus, the company on Sunday launched mobile WiMAX services, marking the first commercial launch of the services in the country on a wide scale and particularly covering the rural areas.

    BSNL says the services can offer broadband speeds of 7 Mbps and has priced the services at a competitive rate of Rs 140 per month rental.

  • BZ: Rural WIFI A "Soon-Come" Reality

    In August of last year, the governments of Belize and Taiwan opened Belize's first Information and Communication Technology Center.

    The promise then was to introduce new technology such as broadband wireless service, and a mobile telephone system - to be used in rural areas.

    Today, the Taiwanese government was living up to its promise when it officially inaugurated a new WIFI infrastructure and IP Telephone system.

  • Canada: Mayor wants Ottawa to be 'sophisticated, web-savvy'

    Mayor Larry O'Brien is going back to his technological roots and he plans to take the City of Ottawa with him.

    In his keynote speech at the federal government's technology forum, GTEC, Tuesday, Mr. O'Brien announced an aggressive plan to turn the city into an Internet-friendly capital that will be the envy of cities across North America.

  • China Unicom to construct "wireless city" in Taian, eastern China's Shandong province

    China Unicom started the construction of a "wireless city" in Taian, eastern China's Shandong province, for trial operation. This is the first of such city launched in China.

    The "wireless city" technology combines WiFi and WiMAX wireless access technologies and 3G-telecommunication technology, providing ubiquitous broadband network access and abundant application services to the government, businesses, and the public.

  • China: Hong Kong: Cyberport and Cisco Jointly Build Model Community for City-Wide Wi-Fi Network

    IT Flagship Community to Experience Future Digital Lifestyle Through a Cisco-Enabled WLAN

    Hong Kong Cyberport, Hong Kong's IT flagship, and Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the creation of a pioneering model at Cyberport for a city-wide Wi-Fi network empowered by a Cisco wireless local area network (WLAN).

  • CN: Shanghai: Wireless City to 'bridge the digital divide'

    Shanghai is accelerating the development of its high-speed wireless broadband network as part of its bid to become a "smart city".

    In its push to become the nation's first wireless city, the country's three telecommunications operators are working together to expand Shanghai's Wi-Fi hotspots to 20,000 in the next three years.

    China Mobile Ltd Shanghai Company has pledged to accelerate the deployment of a wireless local area network (WLAN), Huang Gang, general manager of corporate customer department, told China Daily on Thursday.

  • Deutschland: Breitbandinternet über Funk macht Kabelnetzbetreibern Angst

    Zwei Gutachten warnen vor massiven Beeinträchtigungen

    Die Bundesregierung will den Funkfrequenzbereich, der durch die Digitalisierung der Rundfunkübertragung frei geworden ist, für breitbandige Internetversorgung auf dem Land öffnen. Doch erste Tests der Kabelnetzbetreiber haben erhebliche Beeinträchtigungen des Empfangs von TV-Programmen und die Übertragung von Datensignalen über die Kabelnetze ergeben.

  • EU: Turning on the rural broadband tap…

    Broadband is the water and electricity of the information economy yet millions of Europeans in rural areas remain cut off from this vital supply. To underline its importance, researchers have taken a close look at rural broadband provision and use, and have come up with strong evidence.

    Between 25 and 40 per cent of Europeans have no affordable, effective access to the 1s and 0s that constitute the ABCs of the rapidly emerging knowledge economy. The figure used depends on the definition of 'rural', but there is a real lack of rural broadband access generally.

  • Free Wi-Fi in South Africa

    Small towns free Wi-Fi sets trend for larger cities, but are the cities following suit?

    Small towns are reaping the benefits of having free internet access, whilst large metropolitan cities appear to be lagging behind.

    Stellenbosch residents will soon be able to access wireless internet in the city after the service went live on Friday. Though still in a trial phase, free Wi-Fi is currently available at the town centre and will run for two to three weeks before extending the network to the greater Stellenbosch area.

  • Germany: Nurses go wireless in Essen

    The nursing service at Essen University Hospital is to begin an ambitious wireless health IT project later in September that will result in it becoming one of the first fully wireless hospitals in Germany.

    The wireless system will be introduced to enable nurses and doctors at the hospital to use tablet PCs running electronic nursing documentation software and order communications software at the point of care.

  • Großbritannien: BT beginnt Aufbau flächendeckender WLANs

    Zwölf Großstädte werden bis Februar 2007 ausgeleuchtet

    Der Telekommunikationskonzern BT hat mit der Installation flächendeckender WLANs in mehreren Großstädten Großbritanniens begonnen. Insgesamt sollen in den kommenden Monaten zwölf Metropolen drahtlos vernetzt werden. Wie der Konzern heute in London mitteilte, werden dabei auch Kooperationen mit kleineren, regionalen Anbietern abgeschlossen, um bestehende WLANs in das BT-Netz einzubinden und Hardware-Kosten zu sparen.

  • Höhere Funkleistung soll Breitband-Internet in britische Dörfer bringen

    Die britische Telekommunikations-Regulierungsbehörde Ofcom hat vorgeschlagen, in Funknetzen höhere Sendeleistungen für bestimmte Anwendungen zu erlauben. Die Studie der Behörde (PDF-Datei) untersucht die Möglichkeiten wie das Funkspektrum besser ausgenutzt werden kann. Neben dem wirtschaftlichen Aspekt sehen die Autoren auch neue Möglichkeiten für die Breitband-Versorgung ländlicher Gebiete, die nicht an das kabelgebundene DSL-Netz angebunden sind. Die Überlegungen der Behörde beziehen sich nicht auf WLAN-Techniken, sondern auf den so genannten Wireless Broadband Access (WBA), der Breitband-Internet-Zugänge möglich macht.

  • How Estonia claims wireless title

    The head of the Estonian e-Governance Academy discusses his country's 'wireless miracle'

    With a growing network of wireless Internet access points across a small country with 1.4 million inhabitants, Estonia could be the most "wirelessly wired" country in the world, according to Ivar Tallo, head of the Estonian e-Governance Academy. Tallo is one of the figures behind the country's rapid move to the forefront of Internet and e-government use in Europe and among the new European Union member states.

  • India: Assam: High speed wireless launched

    Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot launched WiMax – BSNL’s high speed wireless data services for rural areas, in Chhayagaon today.

    The Rs 1,200 crore project with a peak speed of 7 mbps would offer a minimum speed of 1 mbps and support all government schemes in the rural areas. This technology has been specially designed for difficult geographical areas where laying cable is difficult and cumbersome.

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