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Mobile broadband penetration above 90% in OECD
2016-08-03 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Japan overtakes Finland for first place in OECD's mobile broadband ranking, while Switzerland leads in fixed.
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Mobile broadband penetration hits 90% in OECD area
2016-08-02 14:00:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) There are now over nine high-speed wireless internet subscriptions for every ten inhabitants in the 35-country OECD area, with mobile broadband penetration soaring to 90.3 percent at the end of 2015, compared to 81.6 percent in December 2014. Data released by the OECD revealed the total number of subscriptions rose to 1.153 billion in a population of 1.27 billion people, some 117 million more than a year earlier. Japan has now overtaken Finland as broadband leader, with a penetration rate of 138.8 percent versus 135.4 percent in Finland and there are now nine countries Japan, Finland, Sweden, United States, Denmark, Australia, Estonia, New Zealand and Korea with penetration rates above 100 percent, compared to eight countries a year ago.
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OECD study: Benefits of US recovery not evenly shared
2016-06-16 23:51:13| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A report by the OECD says that while the US has rebounded from the global recession, US income inequality continues to increase.
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Urgent action needed to stop terrifying rise in air pollution, warns OECD
2016-06-09 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution is becoming a terrifying problem around the globe, one of the worlds leading economic organisations has warned, and will get much worse in the coming decades if urgent steps are not taken to control the pollution. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday that pollution of our air from industry, agriculture and transport was set to cause as many as 9 million premature deaths a year around the world in the next four decades, and the economic...
OECD warns of rising premature deaths, costs of air pollution
2016-06-09 17:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths and represent an economic cost of around $2.6 trillion a year by 2060 unless action is taken, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a report released on Thursday. The OECD examined the economic consequences of air pollution and found that it could cost 1 percent of gross domestic product - or $2.6 trillion a year - by 2060. The economic cost would rise with a surge in related annual healthcare...
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