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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 10, 20114 min read
The Egyptian Switch
Taking a long distance taxi in Egypt can be very cheap. At least if you are Egyptian or you can haggle reasonably well. I recently took a...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 26, 20113 min read
The Bias of the Internet
If you are looking for a certain place, i.e. a park, in a new town, likelihood is that you wil ask someone you meet on the street where...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 22, 20112 min read
Who Did NOT Watch This?
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK’s Hurtigruten project which shows the voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes, an almost 6 day long live TV...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 22, 20112 min read
Those Left Behind
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK reported that 176 countries visited their web site to follow Hurtigruten. My big question was,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 20, 20113 min read
Half of Norway and a Voyage of Two Screens
Norway’s five and a half day long Coastal Voyage is broadcast live minute by minute on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK’s national...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 17, 20113 min read
Why Telecom Networks Need a Little Help
Telenor, Norway’s biggest telecom operator is struggling to deliver the capacity needed by their share of the 5 million people in the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 6, 20111 min read
The Internet is as Dirty as Planes
I travel a lot. Often by airplanes. That puts me at the receiving end of a fair amount of jokes regarding pollution. Planes pollute a...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 2, 20113 min read
Intel and Cisco Look To Broadcasting
The BBC writes that the number of internet connected devices will explode to over 15 billion, twice the worlds population, by 2015. They...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 23, 20113 min read
Double Distribution, Just Don’t Do It
How can we best utilize frequencies or bandwidth? The top trick is to get rid of double distribution. Why distribute the same signals...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 10, 20112 min read
Digitalized Tunnels are Safer
The government in Norway has decided that FM will be switched off in 2017. But what does that mean for the radio coverage in road...
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Gunnar Garfors
May 2, 20113 min read
Why FM Must Go
The Internet cannot substitute broadcasting as a distribution method for radio. I have covered this before: A Collapse of the Internet...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 24, 20115 min read
Nauru – The Run Around Country
I hate having to get visas in advance. Of course not to do so, may cause problems. Visitors to Nauru are required to get the visa in...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 23, 20118 min read
40 Hours on Maryvana
I am here writing about the possibility to go by boat from Libreville to Sao Tome. But before you read on. Are you impatient, restless or...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 12, 20113 min read
The Problem of New
We hear about it everyday. A new phone, a new social network, a new pattern or a new invention. There is nothing wrong with this,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 1, 20113 min read
A Collapse of the Internet Narrowly Avoided
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) recently broke the national record of web tv streaming. During the World championship in Skiing...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 21, 20111 min read
Combination Tablets, Finally
I have been talking about the combination between broadcasting and the Internet for a long time. Why not use the best of two worlds to...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 3, 20112 min read
The BBC Wants Mobile TV Urgently
Mark Thompson, the General Director of the BBC, spoke about mobile TV to the Guardian yesterday. Thompson wants broadcasters which...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 3, 20112 min read
The EU Pushes DMB, DAB and DAB+
Neelie Kroes, the EUs Commissioner for Digital Agenda, spoke at the Association of European Radio’s (AER) 20th Anniversary Conference...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 24, 20112 min read
Internet Radio Expensive in France Too
TDF is a French company that builds and runs networks. All kinds of networks. For both telecom operators and broadcasters. TDF should...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 21, 20113 min read
Plains, Trains and Automobiles
Why can’t we just move all distribution of live television and radio to the Internet? Then you’ll get everything through one cable, or...
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