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Die Geschwindigkeit beim Breitbandausbau in Deutschland hat deutlich zugenommen. Die gemeinsame Breitbandstrategie beginnt jetzt zu greifen. Insbesondere die Kommunen engagieren sich stärker und arbeiten vor Ort auch mit mittleren und kleineren Unternehmen zusammen. Diese Kooperationen auf lokaler Ebene berücksichtigen nicht nur regionale Besonderheiten, sondern haben dazu geführt, dass die Wettbewerber in Deutschland inzwischen 2.400 Gemeinden und Ortsteile an das schnelle Internet anschließen konnten. Das ist das Ergebnis einer aktualisierten erweiterten Abfrage des Verbandes der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten (VATM) e.V. unter Mitgliedern und Nichtmitgliedern.

Vietnam's prime minister has approved a national broadband that aims to extend fixed broadband coverage to 40% of the population by 2020.

According to a Vietnam News report on Saturday, prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung wants 60% of those with broadband coverage to receive a minimum downlink speed of 25 Mbps. Under the plan, all public Internet access points will also be required to use a fixed broadband connection, with at least half wired up to a 50 Mbps service.

A report shows almost 200 communes throughout the country still don’t have public Internet service spots and more than 600 places still use dial-up systems instead of broadband.

EU-Kommissarin Viviane Reding hat ihre Strategie für ein digitales Europa vorgestellt. Sie setzt auf schnelle Internetzugänge, Glasfaser- statt Kupfernetze, UMTS und LTE, mobile Bezahlsysteme, Cloud-Computing sowie einen einfachen und nutzerfreundlichen Zugang zu digitalen Inhalten.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has decided that all 27 million Vietnamese households will be able to access fiber optic cable services in the 2024-2025 period.

The information and communications infrastructure development planning in 2021-2030 approved by the Prime Minister in January 2024 focuses on digital infrastructure development. The telecommunications infrastructure is expected to transform digital infrastructure.

West African countries still have a long way to go in bridging digital divide, despite efforts being made by some countries to close the digital gap. In West Africa, Nigeria inclusive, low infrastructure rollout and the over concentration of operating companies in urban areas, including policy regulation, have been identified as some of the factors impeding fast broadband penetration.

Counties outside the National Fibre Optic Backbone (NOFBI) will have to wait longer for connection following budget cuts for ICT infrastructure connectivity.

Supplementary budget estimates from the National Treasury indicate the number of kilometres to be rolled out in Phase Two of the multi-billion-shilling project have been cut from 800km to 500km.

Fibre-To-The-Home,, also Glasfaseranschlüsse bis in die Wohnung, sind in Deutschland rar. Angebote mit 1 GBit/s wie in Südkorea, Hongkong und Japan sind in Europa noch die Ausnahme, erklärte ein Vertreter des FTTH Council Europe. Schuld sei die Deutsche Telekom, die auf den FTTN/VDSL-Ausbau setze.

Die Europäische Kommission zieht eine Halbzeitbilanz zu ihrer Agenda "Programm i2010", die zur Entwicklung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien ins Leben gerufen wurde. In dieser sollen Maßnahmen diskutiert werden, die eine lückenlose Vernetzung der europäischen Informationsgesellschaft ermöglichen.

Die Spitzenplätze beim Zuwachs belegen Russland (36,85 Prozent), Indien (24,46 Prozent) und China (20,35 Prozent), in dem es weltweit die meisten schnellen Internet-Zugänge (158 Millionen) gibt. In China gab es im Schlussquartal 2011 über 158 Millionen Breitbandanschlüsse. Das Land liegt damit an der Spitze vor den USA (91,6 Millionen) und Japan (36,7 Millionen). Deutschland führt der Bericht mit 28,5 Millionen Anschlüssen auf dem vierten Platz.

The $650 million open-access cable system is the biggest to land on the Africa continent and will link southern Africa and Europe.

The 14,000 kilometre ultra-high-capacity fibreoptic system will also land in Namibia, Angola, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Portugal and the UK.

Touted as the largest design capacity submarine cable to land on the African Continent, the WACS landing will mean increased network capacity for Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) subscribers and an additional diversity for its enterprise customers' Internet Protocol (IP), data and voice communication needs.

The cable, the product of a consortium of companies including Gateway Communications, Angola Telecom and Telkom South Africa, has a 5.12 Tbit/s capacity, making it substantially faster than the celebrated SEACOM cable with its 1.28 Tbit/s design capacity. The speed of the WACS cable is such that one could theoretically download about eight million MP3 files or over eight thousand DVDs per minute.

An ambitious US$106 million (AUD$106 million) Regional Mobile Communications Project (RMCP) is delivering the benefits of mobile broadband to “outback” Australia.

This project supports voice and data services that are similar to metropolitan cities and towns.

Remote area emergency and health services are being enhanced through a $A21.28 million broadband development project jointed funded by the Commonwealth and Western Australian governments.

Announced today by the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, said the Bush Medivac Western Australia project will deliver improved emergency and health services to Australians living in regional and remote areas by providing state-of-art terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadband network infrastructure.

Though a lot of noise is being made about deployments here and there, that’s not enough to move the U.S. needle.

When it comes to broadband deployments worldwide, the United States still ranks high, but not as high as it used to, according to a new report.

“Other countries have been improving faster than we have,” said David Belson, editor of the  Fourth Quarter 2014 State of the Internet Report from Akamai Technologies. “The challenge is we have areas of high population density, but also lots of rural areas where it’s harder to deliver broadband. Also, in some areas there is not a lot of competition. There is a lot of noise being made about deployments here and there. And that’s good news, but it’s really fits and starts, and right now that’s not enough to move the U.S. needle.”

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the highest penetration in the world off fibre to the home connectivity (FTTH), according to research by the Fibre to the Home Council Middle East & North Africa.

Across the UAE, 85 percent of homes subscribe to FTTH, with subscription rates in the next-biggest markets — South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan — ranging from 63 percent to 37 percent, the council notes.

“The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important,” Touré said. Universal broadband access is a crucial step to achieving the Millennium Development Goals to eradicate global poverty by 2015, said the Mali native. “You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services,” Toure said.