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GSM For Rural And Regional Mobile Operators
White Papers This paper discusses the key issues and opportunities that rural and regional mobile operators should consider when transitioning from TDMA to GSM. It describes GSM's advanced voice and data capabilities, its 3G-migration path and how these...
[September 19, 2003, 0:07]
Rural Policy And The New Regional Economics: Implications For Rural America
White Papers Both urban and rural areas in the United States are simply too diverse and heterogeneous to make blanket policy concerns relevant, at least beyond a few caricatures - like the Urban Mass Transit Assistance Program or the Freedom to Farm Program.
[June 22, 2005, 3:00]
Agenda Set For Rural Broadband Push
News The Rural and Regional Broadband Conference will take place in London on 9 July. A full copy of the agenda for the Rural and Regional Broadband conference can be seen by clicking here. Government, industry and rural campaigners will come together...
[June 6, 2003, 15:20]
Rural-broadband Campaigners Sell Out In The City
News Next week's Rural and Regional Broadband Conference could play an important role in shaping the roadmap of Broadband Britain in the months and years ahead. The Rural and Regional Broadband Conference will see contributions from the Department of...
[July 4, 2003, 14:38]
Help Sought As Campaigners Push The Rural Agenda
News The Access To Broadband Campaign (ABC) will hold the Rural and Regional Broadband Conference in London on 9 July. Although the government has provided £30m for regional development agencies (RDAs) to work with broadband and funds both the Broadband...
[May 16, 2003, 15:05]
MPs: Government Must Subsidise Rural Broadband
News Last week's Rural and Regional Broadband conference heard that wireless technologies offer the best hope of closing the broadband divide, but that backhaul -- the cost of connecting a local network to the Internet -- is still a major cost.
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
Partnerships Key To Rural ADSL, Says BT
News BT is planning to lobby regional development agencies (RDAs) and business groups around Britain, in an attempt to persuade them to stimulate broadband awareness and demand in their area. Having rolled out ADSL to just over 1,000 local exchanges...
[February 20, 2002, 15:57]
Broadband Town Will Be Blank Slate
News It claims that the Buckfastleigh project will be an opportunity to find the best, and most cost-efficient, way of bringing high-speed Internet services to a rural community. On Tuesday the government released the details of how the £30m it has...
[March 20, 2002, 13:27]
Public Sector Spending To Boost Rural Broadband
News According to the DTI, these advisors will attempt to use public sector broadband spending as a lever to help "regional economic development and private sector investment. It will stimulate economic development and enhance the delivery of public...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
3.4GHz Auction: All Systems Go
News Fifteen 3.4GHz licences are on offer -- seven covering metropolitan areas, seven covering rural areas, and one for Northern Ireland. This has left the government hoping that smaller players will take part, and the DTI explained on Thursday that...
[February 27, 2003, 16:45]
Government To Fund Broadband Town
News It will finance research into the feasibility of "village wireless LANs" and broadband satellite for rural areas, and will also pay to give business parks in its area access to broadband. The regional development agency for London, where most local...
[March 19, 2002, 12:50]
BT Boss Wants Government Support Not Subsidies
News There are also funds available from government (to a limited extent) and the European Union (to a greater extent) for broadband rollouts in rural areas. A scheme in Cornwall known as ACT NOW will see 33,000 small businesses wired up, with £5m...
[September 11, 2002, 14:15]
BT: Education Key To Broadband
News Actnow -- Access for Cornwall through Telecommunications for New Opportunities Worldwide -- is a £10m joint partnership between BT and a number of public bodies, including the European Regional Development Council, which contributed over £5m to...
[January 27, 2003, 16:21]
BT Urged To Get Broadband Rollout Moving Again
News BT's commercial rollout of ADSL currently covers around 60 percent of homes and 70 percent of Internet users, and the telco believes that it simply isn't commercially viable to bring ADSL to less-populated rural areas where there are much fewer...
[April 4, 2002, 14:48]
GSM And The Future Of Wireless Communication In The Americas
White Papers This paper explains how GSM can be transitioned into the networks of regional and rural operators in the Americas and why GSM is the best opportunity for future revenue and customer growth. This white paper also provides a summary of the advantages...
[March 2, 2004, 11:19]
Broadband Supremo Calls For Grass-roots Revolution
News Speaking at the Rural and Regional Broadband conference in London on Wednesday, Keith Todd warned that a pro-active approach was needed to close the broadband divide. Community wireless networking is a major focus of the Rural and Regional...
[July 9, 2003, 15:36]
The Italian Province Of Brescia Embraces Broadband Technology To Bridge The Digital Divide
White Papers The province deployed innovative Cisco wireless broadband technology brought to rural areas and government broadband strategy becomes a regional shared-services strategy. Province of Brescia, Italy wanted to help local businesses succeed against...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
How The Bells Stole America's Digital Future
White Papers "Bell Atlantic-New Jersey (BA-NJ) has over-earned, under-spent and inequitably deployed advanced telecommunications technology to business customers, while largely neglecting schools and libraries, low-income and residential ratepayers and...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Out With The Old, In With The New: Gila Regional Medical Center Moves Radiology Department's Imaging Library To ATAboy2 RAID Array
White Papers Situated in the heart of Silver City, Gila Regional Medical Center (GRMC) is one of the newest and most modern health care facilities in New Mexico, offering patients in the highly rural southwest region of the state a full range of inpatient and...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Systems Integrator Modernizes Telephone Billing System In India
White Papers The platform includes four Intel Xeon MP Processors plus Intel Server Management hardware and software technologies in each of the Sai-assembled Unix database servers anchoring the billing systems in 10 BSNL regional headquarters.
[July 6, 2007, 3:43]
