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...Under Tchuruk's leadership Alcatel gained strength in such high-growth areas as digital-subscriber line technology, which is used for broadband Internet access - and where Alcatel has an estimated 50% share of the global market - and fiber-optic components...
This, to say the least, is an economic backwater. But Modalen is no longer feeling isolated. Since the beginning of the year, everyone in town - in homes, businesses and schools - has been linked to the Internet with a broadband connection. Overnight, this Norwegian outpost has become part of the worldwide Digital Village. "I was looking for a town in the middle of nowhere to serve as a pilot for broadband testing," says Jostein Eck, marketing manager for the Norwegian telecommunications firm Nera, as he gestures toward the snow-capped cliffs. "We see it as a model for communities outside urban...
There's a clear potential payoff for the town's few businesses. Otto Moe, general manager of financial software firm Uni Micro, says broadband access should cut costs. The company has 7,000 clients, most of them in Oslo, an hour away by plane. "Customers can now connect to our servers in Modalen for support or access to our databases," Moe says. Before broadband, the company had to maintain offices in Oslo and Bergen to handle customer relations. Now it's expanding in Modalen, adding a new building and more staff...
...with no secondary school in town, they currently face a daily two-hour bus commute. Other, unexpected innovations are sure to follow. Opinion pollster Norsk Gallup is participating in the experiment to gauge the effect of high-speed Internet access. As Eck puts it: "We want to see how broadband changes people's lives...
...globe, says they were the first people in the world to actually live in one. Fittingly, they decorated their futuristic flat in whites, creams and light pine to achieve, according to Raymond, "something a bit Zen." Both love the living-room entertainment center. They watch videos downloaded via a broadband Internet connection on a 42-in. (107-cm) flat-panel plasma screen, and use a wireless keyboard to operate the remote, surf the Net and dim the lights to a romantic, theater glow. Raymond reads the local paper online so he doesn't have to pay for a subscription...