Articles tagged with: Rural and Ict
Brazil Leads Lat-Am in Deployments, Connections and Demand for WiMAX and 3G Services
..olve to be converted into a complement of cabled accesses and WiFi Hot Spots; in rural areas they will be transformed into the principal telecommunications backbone, positioning themselves as the primary networks for telephony and Internet acce more
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Telecom Policy Makers Urged to Focus on Rural Connectivity
..Portugal to make affordable access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the rural communities the central focus of their policy-making. Dr. Spio-Garbrah was among a number of heads of international organisations and ministers more
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Wireless Mesh Delivers Broadband to Underserved Areas in Iceland
..ons center to get a high-speed connection through telephone lines, these rural businesses have, until now, been restricted to expensive 128 Kbps ISDN. After reviewing options for delivering high-performance broadband over a large area, the com more
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Telefonica and Nokia partner to mobilize education in Latin America
..ucational quality through ICT application to learning processes in some of their rural schools without fixed broadband connectivity. Proniņo is a program that contributes to the elimination of child labor through quality education, reaching in 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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Vietnamese Network Signs Network Upgrade Contract
..would reach every district nation-wide, with a strong focus on border and rural areas. For 2008, Vinaphone plans to deploy another 3000 BTSs to reach a total of 8000. Vinaphone's strategy for 2009 is network coverage, marketing and branding. more
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Caribbean & Latin America - CDMA Enters its "Sunset" Phase
.. the remaining users disconnected, leaving a rump of not much more than 60k, mainly in rural and remote areas of the continent. CDMA networks experienced the largest drop in absolute terms. It is only two years since Vivo began selling GSM hand more
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Coalition Supports Bill to Ban Teenage Texting While Driving
..ny age," Hewes said, noting that many of Mississippi's rural roads have higher speed limits, less traffic and fewer nearby medical services. If adopted, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety plans to enforce the texting while drivin more
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Telenor Wins Rural Pakistan Coverage Deal
Pakistan's Universal Service Fund (USF) and Telenor have entered into a Rs. 930 million (US$11.6 million) contract to provide basic telephony and data services to the population in the yet un-served areas of Sanghar, Tharparkar Umerkot and Mirpur Khas districts. more
Related Tags: sim, rsa, telenor, telenor-pakistan, universal-service-fund, Pakistan
Telecom Operators in Emerging Markets to Benefit from Technology Transfer in 2009
..e are in the process of developing programmes in areas of green technologies for rural access and connectivity, spectrum management and harmonisation, competition policy and market development to ensure greater penetration of basic services suc more
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