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Hutchison 3G Ireland Awards Satellite Based Broadband Contract

..e to Avanti of EUR 5.3 million over 3 years. Avanti will be concentrating on serving the rural areas where ADSL and Mobile broadband will not reach. The contract will cover an anticipated 5,000 - 6,000 homes and businesses in its initial phase more

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Tower Sharing Could Save $8 Billion Over 5 Years in MEA Region

.. in order to upgrade technologies and capacity as well as population coverage, especially in rural Africa. An extra 100,000 towers are expected to be rolled out in the next 5 years. "Network sharing is not a recent trend, but the current e more

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Active RAN Sharing Could Save Operators $60 Billion

..see very great potential in emerging markets like India where rural expansion and 3G could drive active sharing." more

EU Moves Closer to Approving 3G at 900Mhz

..900 MHz is an ideal band for extending the benefits of broadband connectivity to rural and semi-urban areas, thus helping to bridge the digital divide, and is a perfect complement to 2100 MHz systems, which ensure the capacity layer. Alan Hadd more

148 Million Mobile Data Roaming Subscribers This Year

.. for users in major business and tourism centers driving down prices compared to rural regions. Indeed, prices for data roaming have been falling in Europe and roaming data usage has been growing. However, notes Beccue, "Revenue growth for data more

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India welcomes MVNOs

..competition with the Indian MNOs, which are all aiming to capture new customers via aggressive expansion into the rural regions. Secondly, many new entrants are likely to find it tough to compete and survive on such low margins, particularly wh more

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High-speed internet access needed to revitalise Europe's rural regions

Connecting the 30% of the EU's rural population that has no high speed internet access should be a priority for achieving "broadband for all" by 2010, the European Commission said today. Improved internet connectivity is a powerful tool to stimulate swift economic recovery. The Commission has now outlined how it would use its own support programmes to boost internet networks and services in rural areas, and called on EU Member States to do the same. Good internet access can make farms and companies in rural areas, especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), less isolated and more competitive through access to international markets and faster and more efficient ways of doing business. more

Monitise Gets Mobile Banking Grant to Expand in East Africa

.. in Sub-Saharan Africa in the field of agriculture, agri-business, rural financial services and media and information services that will have a positive impact on the rural poor by delivering increased employment, reduced costs and improved pr more

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Ofcom Outlines Revised Plans for 900Mhz Spectrum

..-speed services in buildings and in rural areas than the spectrum used by other operators. The latest plans In the latest consultation document, Ofcom has further refined the plans. It proposes that the existing 900 MHz licensees should be requ more

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Europe to Boost Rural Broadband Internet Access

.. a high speed online connection but in some countries broadband covers less than half of the rural population. A recent study shows that, assuming a constant adoption rate up to 2015, broadband development will help create around 1 million job more