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A new fibre optic deployment in Bolivia has brought broadband connectivity to residents of the highest city in the world.
Iskratel, a European provider of sustainable broadband access solutions, has said that thousands of residents of Potosí – more than 4,000 metres above sea level – are to receive a fibre broadband connection thanks to the deployment of a GPON broadband network.
Iskratel at the top of the world with fibre-optic deployment in Bolivia
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Deployed in the highest city in the world, Iskratel will meet the needs of thousands of Potosí s residents
Kranj, Slovenia, 6 January 2021 – Thousands of residents in the highest city in the world are to receive a fibre broadband connection thanks to the deployment of a GPON broadband network from leading European provider of sustainable broadband-access solutions Iskratel today.
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In collaboration with its Latin-American partner Teleserv Group Bolivia, and at more than 4,000 metres above sea level, Iskratel is implementing the new, high-speed optical broadband network for Potosí service provider Cotap Ltda. The deployment will see the implementation of Iskratel s SI3000 Lumia GPON Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), along with Innbox G85 and Innbox G74 Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) at customer premises. The deployment will serve thousands of Potosí s residents and is complemented by I
Geographical Magazine In pictures: Jonk wins Earth Photo competition with stunning series of abandoned buildings Written by Geographical 2020 The winner of the Earth Photo competition was Jonk with a set of photos depicting abandoned buildings overtaken by nature
Jonk: Overall winner of Earth Photo plus winner of the Place category
Theatre, Abkhazia region of Georgia (2019)
Jonk is a self-taught freelance photographer whose work focuses on humans and their relationship with nature. His images are taken to raise awareness of the ecological crisis that faces humanity. Fascinated by abandoned places that have been reclaimed by nature, in 2018 he published
Naturalia: A Chronicle of Contemporary Ruins. Far from being pessimistic, and at a time when human domination of nature has never been so extreme, his images are designed to awaken our ecological consciousness. Nature is stronger, so whatever happens to humans, na
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By Kenneth Maxwell
A decade after the Spanish Conquistadores toppled the Inca Empire (1532-34), an indigenous Andean prospector, Diego Gualpa, in 1545, stumbled onto the richest silver deposit in the world on a high mountain of 4,800 meters (15,750 feet) in the eastern cordillera of the Bolivian Andes.
Here in the shadow of what the Spaniards called the “Cerro Rico” (“Rich Mountain”) at 4,000 meters (13,200 feet) a mining boom town quickly developed. By the end of the sixteenth century, it had become one of the largest and the highest cities in the world, and in 1561, Philip ll of Spain, decreed that it should be known as the “Villa Im
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By Ellsworth Dickson
Bolivia, a South American, land-locked country of 11.6 million, has had a tumultuous social and political past, while at the same time, has seen mineral production continue for some 500 years – since before the time of the Spanish Conquistadors.
For much of this time, foreign investment in the resource sector was not encouraged. However, things have changed and the government is now actively seeking foreign investment to develop its mining sector which is very underdeveloped despite significant resources of zinc, gold, silver, tin, antimony, iron ore, copper, tungsten, sulfur, potassium, borax, semi-precious stones and lithium. Bolivia has the world’s largest silver producer – Cerro Rico – with 1.6 billion ounces of silver and the world’s second-largest lithium reserves, estimated at 9 million tonnes, or about 25% of known global reserves.