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Vienna (pte020/03.06.2013/14:14) - The Austrian network provider A1 wants to provide 60,000 household and 10,000 companies in Styria with faster internet by 2014.
The Styrian government has supported the project of Austria's largest telecom provider A1 financially by injecting more than 10 million Euros for a faster and more efficient data-network.
If the number of spoken minutes has been constant for some time, the quantity of data sent over the internet has increased dramatically. Indeed, the quantity of data sent via tablets, smart phones and other media doubles every one to one-and-a-half years.
At the centre of the plan is the network of glass fibre cables, which will be re-built and extended not only in the region's capital Graz, but in rural Styria too.
The works have already been completed in some parts of the region. A1 technical director Markus Grausam said: "Deutschlandsberg, Gratkorn and the region surrounding Schladming. We have also re-worked parts of Graz out of our own initiative.
"We want to build on 22 sites in Styria before the end of 2013. By the end of 2014, we want to build on an extra 46 Styrian sites to ensure a decent broadband supply even in rural areas."
Styria's finance minister Christian Buchmann said: "Accessibility is the name of the game at the moment. We want all Styrians to be able to use the data-highway as soon as possible."
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