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Green Telecom Agenda: With the upcoming Climate Summit in Copenhagen this Autumn Nordisk Mobiltelefon and Copenhagen based telecoms design firm DanCell takes the opportunity to put the role of telecoms on the agenda for more effective energy spending and kicks off an opportunity to improve global quality of life in the process.
By using telecom as a tool for reducing CO2 outlets we have a very effective weapon in the battle to reduce the impact of on the climate of modern lifestyle and certainly have the means to produce more intelligent usage of the resources creating better lives for millions
DanCell suggest more intelligent network designs as a means to reducing CO2 emissions from road traffic in the process by more effective use of mobile broadband to better optimise transportation and eliminate unneeded professional and private mileage on the roads.
In telecoms we have a very effective weapon in the battle to reduce the impact on the climate of modern lifestyle and certainly have the means to more intelligent management of the resources and a unique opportunity to create better lives for millions in the process says Erik Hornung, founder of Nordisk Mobiltelefon in Denmark and CEO of DanCell.
By effective spectrum management we have a unique opportunity to provide broadband coverage to every corner of the Earth, says CEO Erik Hornung, CEO of Copenhagen based DanCell, and uses his own country as example. In cooperation with Danish regulator ITST, he has managed to free up spectrum to allow for a very environmentally effective implementation of mobile broadband allowing access to the network from even the most remote corners of the country.
This allows people to work from home and rural industries to be vastly more effective thus increasing the prosperity in rural Denmark and reducing the traffic pressure on the main roads leading into the capital and major cities as more people get the opportunity to work locally.
"One of the obvious but often overlooked aspects of a wider access to the Internet is the ability to reduce pressure on roads and the huge CO2 emissions and wasted in queues around major cities. Consider as an example only at the impact it will have in everyday life, if every day were 10 to 15% fewer cars in the inbound direction on the roads and around major cities? "
Together with long term associates in Sweden Erik Hornung designed a similar network for Sweden. Being 450,000 sq km (174,000 sq miles) large with only 9.3 million inhabitants the issue is very present in most peoples life. Public speculations are now that the incumbent operator will take the opportunity to get out its very costly service obligations to provide basic wired telephony to households in the vast remote areas of the country.
Being in the network design business too DanCell has taken its own medicine and helped clients by designing networks with reduced CO2 emissions to less than 20% of conventional mobile broadband networks targeting a reduction to 5% of the normal CO2 emission as an obtainable goal.
"It is incredibly exciting to help improve the quality of life and competitiveness in rural parts of the world and simultaneously help to improve the environment. In our eyes there is no contradiction between productivity and the environment. We see it as actually very compatible, and in telecommunications, we have a real opportunity to actively contribute to community development and safe environment ", concludes the humble but very confident Erik Hornung, CEO of DanCell.
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