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 | | Isolated by the region's dramatic fjords and with a population of less than 400, Modalen, Norway, was picked by a consortium of high-tech companiesNorwegian wireless firm NERA, hardware maker PCTVnet, and Cisco Systemsfor an experiment to connect a whole town entirely through wireless technology. |
 | | Every home, public service, school, and business in Modalen is eligible to receive a TV set-top box called a HomePilot that gives users high-speed access to services such as online banking, shopping, e-mail, interactive TV, and IP video telephony. |
 | | Setup of the Multimedia@Modalen pilot project was completed in seven weeks, part of an overall undertaking of the Norwegian government to achieve nationwide wireless broadband coverage by 2004. |
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