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  • EU Opens GSM to Advanced Wireless Communication Devices
    "The new EU rules published today allow the re-farming of the radio spectrum in the GSM band for new mobile services, strengthen competition and save the mobile industry up to €1.6 billion in capital costs."
  • EU Releases Report on Green Knowledge Society
    "The ICT sector can lift Europe out of the present economic crisis, if we can agree on an ambitious agenda for a pro-competitive and green European knowledge society and for a single market for digital goods and services."
  • Index Attempts to Measure Social Value of Broadband Policy
    "A relatively low-speed mobile connection may have tremendous value to a low-income consumer that does not own a computer -- and the value to society of connecting that person may be far greater than boosting download speeds from 10 Mbps to 20 Mbps in a rich suburban area."
  • Workshop Examines Challenges of Coastal Migration
    A recent workshop organized by LOICZ (Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone), a core project of the International Geosphere-Bioshphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, has highlighted the increasing challenges of popolation mirgration.
  • Digital Britain Launched Today
    "Only a Digital Britain will enable us to demonstrate the vision and dynamism that we have to shape the future."
  • Kenya Experiences Wind and Solar Powered Mobile Communications
    "Sites like this one have great potential for solving the African power-grid challenge of bringing mobile communication to those at the bottom of the economic pyramid."
  • American Samoa Governor Meets on Call Centers, Other Matters
    "We are asking ... to allow American Samoa to be a part of any U.S. State Department delegation as an ‘observer' in any or all Pacific regional meetings."
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