The global disparity in fixed broadband access and cost has been revealed by UN figures.
Where price or lack of access makes fixed broadband impossible or implausible, mobile broadband is a viable substitute.
They all successfully bid to become super-connected cities with ultrafast fixed broadband access and large areas of public wireless connectivity.
On average, fixed broadband services generate 0.24 complaints for every 1, 000 customers.
Cisco says the average speed for fixed broadband will jump 4x from 7 megabits per second in 2010 to 28 Mbps in 2015.
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The Central African Republic is the most expensive place to get a fixed broadband connection, costing nearly 40 times the average monthly income there.
The report also examines the growth of smart TV in different regions and reveals that there are several emerging markets where fixed broadband appears to be leapfrogged by consumers.
Douglas L. Gilstrap , senior vice president at Ericsson: There will be fixed broadband of 650 million lines by 2018 but mobile broadband will have 6.5 billion subscribers by 2018.
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"There are certainly stocks which could look interesting on a longer-term view, but we want to see more clarification on the regulatory side in terms of investments in fixed broadband, " he added.
Further rollout could prove a boon to rural areas where fixed line broadband speeds are poor.
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It said fixed line broadband had been restored on Thursday, and mobile telephones were still working, despite a mast in Herm being out of order.
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices today operate in 555 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 GHz band, and are used for short range, high speed wireless connections including Wi-Fi enabled local area networks and fixed outdoor broadband transceivers used by wireless Internet service providers to connect smart phones, tablets and laptops to the broadband network.
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This is a convergence of mobile portability with the speed and multifunctionality of fixed-line broadband.
In India, where fixed-line broadband links are rare, many will get their first taste of speedy surfing over a wireless network.
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Softbank, which also offers fixed-line broadband services, has carried out an aggressive marketing drive in recent years, starring a talking white dog that has proved popular among Japanese.
Sinn Fein's Cathal Boylan asked about the funding for fixed-line broadband in rural areas, something which Mrs Foster said was not possible in certain cases due the prohibitive cost.
Its plug-and-play function automatically configures itself to the surrounding radio environment, enabling users to quickly enjoy wider, higher-quality and more cost-effective coverage simply by connecting the femtocell to a broadband fixed line.
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And several service providers, using a number of different technologies, have sprung up offering wireless alternatives to Telkom's costly fixed-line broadband service, which is expensive by European standards, let alone African ones.
It promises to be the fastest network yet, providing fixed and mobile broadband service and can deliver up to 40 megabits per second per channel up to 30 miles away from a base station.
The report is the seventh that Ofcom has produced and it logs complaints about broadband, fixed telephone services, Pay TV and pay monthly mobile services.
Europe's former monopolies have been keen to expand their mobile operations not only to boost revenue but also to allow them to offer bundled fixed, mobile and broadband services.
But challenges include the long-awaited shake-up of China's telecoms sector, which could see the market becoming fiercely competitive with the entry of fixed-line and broadband providers China Telecom and China Netcom.
But with NTL due to change its name to Virgin Media next year, NTL also has UK commercial broadcaster ITV in its sights as a takeover target, part of its plans to offer television as well as broadband, fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services.
The new KTS TV bands device is designed and approved for fixed operations that serve any broadband data applications.
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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 astonishing achievement, however, is that while there were practically no mobile or Internet connections in 1984, globally there are now 86 mobile telephones, 33 Internet users and 24 broadband subscriptions (fixed and mobile) per every 100 people.
Interestingly, the number of global mobile broadband subscriptions now outnumbers fixed ones by two to one, and mobile internet services showed the biggest growth rates in 2011: 40% worldwide and 78% in developing markets.
But a daunting task remained: to replace the declining fixed-line revenue with mobile and broadband services in one of Europe's most competitive markets.
Around EUR 6 billion is earmarked for rolling out the broadband infrastructure in the German fixed network with optical fiber and vectoring between 2013 and 2020.
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He told Forbes.com that social networking could bridge the gap between fixed-line and mobile networks, from broadband at home to mobile data transmission.
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