Speed of the Fibre –to-home Broadband service has been increased to 150mbps by Eircomm. More than 10,000 homes and businesses get benefitted highly in Sandyford, Dublin. It has been increased as a part of its €20m trial plan. Eircomm’s CEO Paul Donovan said that, this is a trial plan to estimate the total cost of materials and civil engineering works.
By spring 2011 all customers will be connected by this high speed internet connectivity. Donovan told that, “A lot of people right now are watching the World Cup on their PCs, We’ve decided that there’s been a lot of talk about next-generation access and we’ve decided to work with the industry to take a lead in making this investment, by making sure from day one we provide incentives for other operators to join us, the world will be consuming interesting bandwidth-hungry applications and we think it is vital that the pilot provides pointers for industry on how to invest in these networks.”

The government has also welcomed the plans by Eircomm, Eamon Ryan minister for telecommunication said that, “I very much welcome this announcement by Eircom, the latest in a line of significant developments in Ireland’s broadband story.My department’s National Broadband Scheme has cracked the availability issue and will deliver broadband to every area of Ireland this autumn – three years ahead of the EU target of 2013 and 10 years ahead of the USA’s target of 2020.”

He also added that, “The speed and quality of broadband has been firmly in my sights since I published my NGB policy paper last year. My policy, based on facilitating competition and providing investment certainty is now beginning to bear fruit, as far as speeds are concerned. Eircom’s announcement today is one of the most important developments in recent years and will result in huge bandwidth being provided to the trialled homes and businesses. This development, along with the rollout of 100Mbps capability by the cable operator, demonstrates the market’s appetite to respond to the demands for bigger bandwidth,”

Canada’s federal government has planned to provide broadband connectivity all the citizens outside the major metropolitan centres. James Moore the Canadian heritage minister said that this initiative would provide internet connection to nearly 82,000 households in Quebec and 169,000 households all over the country.

High power broadband will be accessible to 52 projects territories and nine provinces. Ottawa will pour $76.7 million for internet access to Matane, Joliette, Kamouraska and Natashquan. Government would be providing fifty percent of the onetime costs.

Moore added that, “There’s a gap between urban and rural Canadians in terms of their choices and the speed of the access to the Internet,” High-speed Internet matters for all Canadians because it’s the speed at which you can create and at which you can do business. This is a critical element to economies.”
Based upon the report by Harvard University, the internet access has grown more gradually when compared with the other countries in the past years.

Nokia Siemens network has planned to provide faster broadband experience to all its users. They are one of the leaders in offering global telecommunications. Currently these companies have planned to transform the mobile users experience in the Middle East Africa (MEA) to provide faster data with rich applications and multimedia.
Mohamed Abdelrehim, Head of Network systems for Middle East and Africa said that, “The timing of our road show could not be more opportune, With Nigeria’s growing demand for mobile broadband, the growth for the country’s operators will now come from advanced mobile data service offerings and not basic connectivity” LTE in reality, is a 3G mobile standard bases on full flat IP architecture and LTE’s data speed range up to 160 Mb/s. In this field Nokia Siemens network are the forerunners.

Mohamed also added that, “Today, we are reinforcing our vision of five billion people connected by 2015, via a showcase of the latest next generation mobile broadband technology to mobile operators in the region. What’s more the Nokia Siemens Networks LTE proposition is based on software upgrades to current 3G networks that are currently deployed by a majority of regional mobile operators”

Nokia Siemens is a global leader in telecommunication services and has focus on innovation and sustainability. It also provides converged network technology and professional services.

India’s leading telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has ventured with Novartium to expand the business broadband services to customers in India, Under the tie up both would offer Cloud computing services ‘Airtel  Net PC’ to all its customers said Vikas Singh CMO of Bharathi Airtel Telemedia services. This service will be shortly available in eleven cities including Chennai within the next 6 months.

He also quoted that, “It’s like a plug and play service…We will specifically target the middle income category.”
Singh also added that these services will be available to Airtel customers, This plan A priced at Rs.4,999 which includes Nova navigator device, while the second plan at a cost of Rs 8,999 which includes the USB keyboard, mouse and  15” LCD monitor. The third plan with a 169 GB hard disk would cost Rs.10, 999

Chief Executive Officer of Novartium Alok Singh said that, these services will be of much useful to areas where there is lack of connectivity. As of now in India there are only seven million customers using the broadband connectivity and they are expecting it to 13-14 million customers. Mr. Singh also added that, Novartium has already made a tie up with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited for providing alike service and under this partnership there are nearly twenty five thousand customers.