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Global Business: Singapore Start-ups - Episode 2 - All Wired Up

23/11/2010

Singapore Start-ups - Episode 2 - All Wired Up

BBC World Service - Global Business, Singapore Start-ups - Episode 2 - All Wired Up

Singapore is putting high hopes on speeding up the internet

Singapore is putting high hopes on speeding up the internet as part of a battle for speedy connectivity going on across Asia.

Two months ago, Singapore got wired for speed - homes and businesses got their first chance to sign up to the island's new fibre optic system delivering broadband connections at very high speed.  

The government thinks that super-connectivity is both a creator of enterprise and a basic part of the infrastructure that will attract incoming corporations. Peter Day attempts to find out if this is a realistic proposition.

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