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Articles tagged with: Oecd
Mobile phone calls lowest in Finland, Netherlands and Sweden, says OECD report
Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden have the lowest prices for mobile phone calls among oecd countries, according to the latest oecd Communications Outlook. The highest were found in Canada, Spain and the United States. more
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Landline Competition Improving Says NZ Regulator - Mobile Unaffected
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has released its 2008 telecommunications monitoring report which notes that while there has been increased competition within the country's landline market, the mobile market has been largely unaffected. more
Related Tags: 3g, vodafone, nz-communications, landline, benchmarking, commerce-commission, New Zealand
Study Sounds Warning on R&D Expenditure in Europe
Europe risks never being able to close its research gap with the United States if it cannot increase R&D investment in the services sector, according to a new study published today by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). more
Related Tags: eu, edge, 3, european-investment-bank, play
Europe to Boost Rural Broadband Internet Access
The European Commission says that it is earmarking 1 billion (US$1.3 billion) to achieve 100 % high-speed internet coverage for all European citizens by 2010 as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan. On average, 93 % of Europeans can enjoy a high speed online connection but in some countries broadband covers less than half of the rural population. more
Related Tags: nokia, european-commission, rural, alcatel-lucent, ericsson, eu, satellite
EU Calls for Mass Migration to IPv6 by 2010
The European Commission has set a target of getting at least a quarter of EU industry, public authorities and households to switch to IPv6 internet addressing by 2010. A recent report from the oecd had warned that the shortage of older IPv4 internet addressing threatened the rise of mobile internet services. more
Related Tags: european-commission, viviane-reding, eu, mobile-internet, 3g-americas
Mobile Phones Could Be Affected by IP Address Shortage
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Mobile Broadband Could the Dominant Internet Access Route for Africa
A new report from the ITU says that growth in AfricaĆ's mobile sector has defied all predictions. Africa remains the region with the highest annual growth rate in mobile subscribers and added no less than 65 million new subscribers during 2007. At the beginning of 2008, there were over a quarter of a billion mobile subscribers on the continent. Mobile penetration has risen from just one in 50 people at the beginning of this century to almost one third of the population today. Mobile subscribers are also now more evenly distributed. In 2000, South Africa accounted for over half of all AfricaĆ's mobile subscribers, but by 2007, almost 85 per cent were in other countries. Mobile success, driven largely by competition, is also spawning new services such as micro-payment prepaid recharging, single rate inter-regional roaming and the uptake of m-commerce applications. more
Related Tags: roaming, ict, itu, vodacom, tax, infrastructure-sharing, license-fees
New Zealand Mobile Costs Too High by International Standards
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has released its 2007 telecommunications monitoring report analysing the state of New Zealand telecoms markets. The report also benchmarks the performance of the New Zealand telecommunications markets against oecd data. more
Related Tags: roaming, termination-rates, benchmarking, commerce-commission, New Zealand
OECD Countries Use Tax Breaks to Drive Corporate R&D Spending
More and more oecd governments are giving firms tax breaks to drive innovation while cutting their direct spending on business research and development (R&D), and are also encouraging public research organisations to commercialise their inventions, according to a new oecd report. According to the report, two thirds of the 30 oecd member countries offered businesses tax subsidies in 2006, up from 12 in 1995, and most have tended to make it more generous over the years. Direct government funding financed an average of 7% of business R&D in 2005, down from 11% in 1995. more
Related Tags: ict, patents, inventions, european-union, sharp, tax
Telecoms Advances Throw up New Challenges for Operators
Telecommunications investment continues to rise and consumers are generally paying less for more and better services across the oecd area but technology developments are presenting new challenges to telecoms operators, according to a new oecd report. more