The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In 2007 Cisco published 'Connected Real Estate' a 200 plus pate set of essays "from innovators in real estate, design, and construction" with the foreword "We stand at the cusp of an exciting transformation of our physical environment as we weave a unified digital infrastructure into new and existing buildings, communities, and cities. Fully integrated communications become the foundation for as yet uninvented applications and services that transform the ways in which we create and use the places where we live, work, play, and learn."
This latest phase in Cisco's focus on the urban network was unveiled from Cisco's Globalisation Centre East in the Indian city of Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) in Karnataka state the presence of the state's chief minister, BS Yeddyurappa, with Cisco announcing a pilot program with the Karnataka "to develop the roadmap for an intelligent, smart and sustainable Bengaluru city."
"This collaboration builds on Cisco's thought leadership and technology expertise with Connected Urban Development," Cisco said. Cisco also announced the signing of an MoU with Incheon Metropolitan City in Korea to build the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) into " a centre of globalisation expertise in Asia Pacific."
This will include "the development of advanced 'u-City' [utility city] technologies, designed to create a unified, common Internet Protocol (IP) network platform for the project. A Cisco u-City Global Centre will be established in Songdo, the waterfront of Incheon Metropolitan City offering "comprehensive integrated solutions to help citizens experience a technology-enabled lifestyle in commerce, health care, education and at home."
Cisco will also help transform IFEZ into a business hub on a global basis by supporting Global City Fair and Festival 2009, and an environmental forum held in Incheon Metropolitan City.
In the past month Cisco has also made a several investments/acquisitions directed at furthering its 'Intelligent Urbanisation' initiative. It has completed its acquisition of Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence, a provider of intelligent middleware technology for building systems that "enables the convergence of building systems onto an IP network, resulting in increasing operations efficiency while reducing costs."
Cisco also participated in a $US7.5m second round venture financing of Australian company Majitek which develops software designed to enables any device or system connected to a network to be accessed on a pay per use basis. Majitek claims that it is "positioned to enable all devices and systems within an entire city to be offered as 'utility services."
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