Ascó, a town of 1600 people in the region of Catalonia, has rolled out a wireless mesh network covering 74 square kilometers. The town is best known for its nuclear power plant, as well as almond and olive groves, and vineyards. According to the service provider, Eurona, the city will use the network for municipal applications and public Internet access.
Girona, Spain is deploying a citywide Wi-Fi network for municipal applications. At present, the network is running in the Can Gibert del Pla and Santa Eugenia neighborhoods, but it is being expanded to cover the entire city (13 square kilometers).
The cost of the project will be about 1,000,000 €. This amount includes not only the deployment of the network nodes, but also some applications running on it. The network is still in a pilot phase, operated by the municipal IT…
The European Commission has imposed a fine of 151 million Euros on Spanish incumbent telco, Telefonica, for abuse of its dominant position in the Spanish broadband market. The fine is the second highest ever levied by the Commission (the highest is 497 million EUR against Microsoft). The European Commission has imposed a fine of 151 million Euros on Spanish incumbent telco, Telefonica, for abuse of its dominant position in the Spanish broadband market. The fine is the second highest ever…
The state of Catalonia, Spain, has selected Alvarion, Ltd.’s BreezeMAX technology to extend mobile wireless broadband services through the state.The state of Catalonia, Spain, has selected Alvarion, Ltd.’s BreezeMAX technology to extend mobile wireless broadband services through the state. The project, to be carried out by the state’s Center for Information and Communication Technologies (CTTI), will expand networks previously deployed by Spanish operator, Iberbanda.
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