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This site is devoted to municipal broadband projects worldwide that are funded or supported by cities and towns, especially those projects that incorporate wireless technologies. These range from downtown hot-zones & city- and county-wide wireless broadband networks, to country-wide deployments. Although we often use the word “city," rural municipalities receive equal coverage, because they are leading the fight for affordable, fast, universal access to the Internet. We also cover the products, technologies, and standards that comprise public broadband networks, and the organizations that design, install, and mainta in them.

Telecommunications is a fascinating, fast paced industry that influences every aspect of our daily life like normal voice phone calls, connectivity to the Internet, satellite communications, surfing the web, fax transmissions, video conferencing, high speed data communications, and cable tv.

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.) was established in 1998 as a pilot organisation under the Austrian government´s Kplus Competence Centers Program. The founding partners were departments from Vienna University of Technology, several well-known telecommunications companies - both network operators and equipment manufacturers - some smaller enterprises, the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf and the Association of the Electrotechnical and Electronics Industry. Its goal is to bring together academia and industry to carry out application-oriented research in one of the central scientific fields of tomorrow´s information society.

The Telecommunications InfoTechnology Forum (TIF) was established by the Telecommunications Research Project (TRP) in January 1996 as a small monthly gathering of around 30 participants. From March 1998 it adopted a larger quarterly format with over 100 participants.

Since 1998, QuEST Forum has pursued a goal of global telecommunications quality and industry-wide performance excellence. Through the implementation of a common set of quality requirements, the collaborative activities of its global workgroups, an emphasis on industry best practices, and the delivery of a leading-edge measurement system, QuEST Forum advances the quality, reliability, and performance of telecom products and services around the world.

Telecommunications® is the global authority on the business of telecom. Through our monthly print magazine, Telecommunications, our website, www.telecommagazine.com, and a series of push e-mail products, interactive webinars and live events, Telecommunications plays a leading role in informing agenda-setting service providers around the globe on the technology and business issues that affects their businesses, their networks and their bottom lines. Telecommunications Magazine is owned by Horizon House, Inc., which also publishes Microwave Journal®. Artech House, a sister company, is an industry-leading producer of high-tech books.

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Fixed line telecoms deployment Telecom Jobs and Telecom News

Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and city. A Top 20 online news destination (Hitwise, July 2007), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media companies to grow and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing platforms and RSS feeds.

TM Forum is the world’s leading trade association that provides leadership & guidance, technical & business innovation, and education & training to improve the way telecoms, media and information services are created, delivered, assured and charged. TM Forum also facilitates marketing and networking activities for its members.