Economy

Lithuania Europe’s No. 1 in fibre-optic internet penetration

For the 6th year in a row, Lithuania retained its leading position in Europe in terms of fibre-optic (FTTH) Internet network penetration. According to the global ranking, Lithuania comes in number 8, the annual report of the FTTH Council Europe shows. […]

Duomenų perdavimo magistralė "Baltic Highway"
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3,000km optical fiber network connects Eastern and Western Europe

21 January 2015 marks an official launch of the Baltic Highway, a modern data transmission network, connecting Tallinn (Estonia) and Frankfurt (Germany) via Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania), Warsaw (Poland) and Berlin (Germany). The 3,000km optical fiber network is distinguished for its reliability, low 35 milliseconds latency, capacity of 100G per channel and 9.6 Tbit/s total throughput. […]

Economy

Over half of Lithuanians use internet daily

Internet usage has become very widespread amongst the EU population, and not only are more and more people using the internet, but they also use it more and more often, with almost two-thirds (65 percent) of individuals aged 16 to 74 in the European Union using the internet daily in 2014, compared with less than a third (31 percent) in 2006. During the same period, the percentage of individuals in the EU that have never used the internet dropped from 43 percent in 2006 to 18 percent in 2014, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU announced. […]

Economy

Lithuanian government plans broadband for everyone

Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications has prepared the New Generation Access Network Plan for 2014-2020, which will provide the basic new generation broadband infrastructure in areas where no adequate broadband infrastructure was available before, the ministry said in a report. […]