The Industry of the Telecommunication

A. What are the important features of the telecommunication industry according to that source?

Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers, install, repair, and maintain the array of increasingly complex and sophisticated communications equipment and cables. Their work includes setting up, rearranging, and removing the complex switching and dialing equipment used in central offices. They may also solve network-related problems and program equipment to provide special features.

B. what can you find about information technology sector of Finland from that source and the links?

The sector of information technology are:

Electric power: 220 V, 50 Hz

Dial numbers: +358, Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo (0)9, Tampere (0)3, Turku (0)2

GSM standards: GSM 900/1800, 3G

Fixed telephone users: 40% of households in Finland have a fixed-line telephone

Market shares of fixed-line operators (September 2007): Elisa 33%, TeliaSonera 29%, Finnet-Group 18%, DNA 16%, and other 3%

Mobile penetration: over 100 percent

Market shares of mobile operators: TeliaSonera 41%, Elisa 36%, DNA 23%

Internet: more than 75 percent of Finns use Internet regularly or occasionally; for those under the age of 40, the figure is 100 percent.

Broadband connections: 1.76 million (March 2008)

Broadband penetration: around 55 per 100 population (March 2008), 92 per cent of households that use internet have broadband connection. 3G broadband services will reach 95% of population within a few years.

Market shares of broadband operators (September 2007): Elisa (33%), TeliaSonera (29%), Finnet Group (15%), DNA (12%), and other (12%)

C. Then the following links are at your free choice. Surf, Read, get a picture and write interesting things to your web blog. What knowledge you find about the industry of the telecommunication as a whole?

I did not found so much funny. But I am interested in the WIMAX wireless system. After I read the news and technologies. I beleive the WIMAX technology will develop in a high speed in advance.