The ITU attributes the latter figure to the relatively high price of fixed access in these countries, and the increasing availability of mobile alternatives.
The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures.
They all successfully bid to become super-connected cities with ultrafast fixed broadband access and large areas of public wireless connectivity.
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Where price or lack of access makes fixed broadband impossible or implausible, mobile broadband is a viable substitute.
Fewer than one in 250 people have access to a fixed-line telephone.
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It is paid fixed fees by train companies for access to its track, regardless of how many trains they run.
"Borrowers now need a 25% deposit to access virtually all its fixed and tracker products, " said Aaron Strutt of mortgage brokers Chase de Vere.
"The immediate knock-on effect has been the collapse of savings rates across easy access notice accounts and fixed bonds, " said Sylvia Waycot of Moneyfacts, the financial information provider.
With 55 percent of all U.S. households beholden to a single, fixed-line provider of broadband access (mostly cable modem service), the Commission should consider how each of its rules affects broadband investment.
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The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
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Most have no fixed nationality and find it difficult to access education and healthcare, while their fishing practices can conflict with environmental conservation laws.
Inmarsat is also entering a new field, the fixed satellite business ("fixed" refers to the customer, not the satellite) and will access very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) of the type maintained by fixed satellite service purveyors like Intelsat.
Most important and most implausible of all, the majority starts by limiting its definition of broadband to access available by wire or other fixed technology.
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Leeds Building Society credited some of its success on the savings front to the popularity of its fixed rate bonds, which allowed customers unlimited access to a proportion of their money without penalty during the product's term.
So consumers who value fixed prices usually have to accept that firms may ration access to the good.
But the FCC has attempted to strike a balance by prohibiting fixed-line internet service providers from blocking customers from access to any legal content, applications or service.
We have a fixed number of teachers and, in the past, a lack of access to technology.
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When paired with the Qualcomm Atheros AR6003 or AR6004 chipsets, the mobile access point software stack enables customers to design high performance, low power portable and fixed 802.11n routers.
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South Africa, with a strong economy, provides attractive fixed-income opportunities while India, with a massive need for infrastructure investment, is a hard market to access given relatively under-developed capital markets. (Read: No Credit Bubble In Brazil, Just Dangerous Consumer Debt Burden).
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