Denmark leads digital convergence

Denmark is among the more progressive countries in Europe with the uptake of broadband and digital media services, according to TMCnet.

Cable TV companies, which access more than half of Danish homes, have supplemented traditional pay TV and broadband packages with voice-over-Internet protocol (VOIP), video-on-demand and mobile services.

Analogue switch-off was affected in November 2009, allowing for 800GHz spectrum to be allocated for mobile broadband and other services.

Eight villages in Cornwall, UK, will benefit from a multi-million pound project to boost broadband speeds of up to 100mbps in the most rural parts of the county, states The Inquirer.

The roll-out is the work of a local development firm and British Telecom (BT) and will see Cornwall's most rural areas get an injection of fibre optic network infrastructure before their urban neighbours.

BT has contributed £78.5 million to the programme, while £53.5 million has come from the European Regional Development Fund Convergence programme.

A survey commissioned by Primus Canada found that small business owners are feeling vulnerable when it comes to the security of their networks, says Channel Buzz.ca.

The survey found that although most small business owners view digital convergence technologies, such as VOIP, as having a potential benefit on their organisations, less than a quarter of Canadian SMEs have adopted such technologies.

“Our belief on why they are anxious about security is because the implications about making the wrong decision around your company's security are much further reaching than the quality of your phone system or the reliability of your Internet connection or your e-mail service, for example,” says Jeff Lorenz, vice-president of sales and marketing at Primus Canada.