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Lightning-Fast Latvia: Inside Europe’s Undercover Internet Powerhouse

Lightning-Fast Latvia: Inside Europe’s Undercover Internet Powerhouse

Latvia has about 1.9 million people, with roughly 92.9% online as of early 2024. Over 50% of Latvian households use fiber connections, placing Latvia among seven European countries with high fiber penetration. Latvia has the second-highest rural fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage in Europe, behind Denmark. As of 2022, 76% of fixed broadband subscriptions were over fiber, and over 38% of connections deliver speeds above 300 Mbps. Latvia’s median fixed broadband speed was around 89 Mbps in early 2024, with 10 Gbps fiber services being introduced in Riga in select areas. 4G networks blanket 99% of the population, and rural 4G coverage
15 Junho 2025
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Lightning-Fast Latvia: Inside Europe’s Undercover Internet Powerhouse

Lettonie ultra-rapide : à l’intérieur de la puissance secrète d’Internet en Europe

La Lettonie compte 1,9 million d’habitants et environ 92,9% de sa population est connectée à Internet début 2024. Plus de 50% des foyers lettons utilisent la fibre optique, plaçant le pays parmi les sept premiers d’Europe en pénétration fibre. La Lettonie affiche la deuxième meilleure couverture FTTH rurale d’Europe, derrière le Danemark. En 2022, 76% des souscriptions haut débit fixe passaient par la fibre et plus de 38% des connexions dépassaient 300 Mbps. La vitesse médiane du haut débit fixe est d’environ 89 Mbps début 2024 et à Riga des offres fibre jusqu’à 10 Gbps sont en cours de lancement.
15 Junho 2025
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Inside Estonia’s Internet Revolution: How the Baltic Tech Star is Pioneering Connectivity (Even from Space)

Inside Estonia’s Internet Revolution: How the Baltic Tech Star is Pioneering Connectivity (Even from Space)

As of 2022, about 94.9% of Estonian households could access fixed broadband, and 78.9% had gigabit-speed FTTP, well above the EU average. The government targets full gigabit coverage by 2030, with about 77% of households connected to a Very High Capacity Network by 2023. 4G coverage exceeds 99% of the population, and by 2023 5G coverage reached 87% of households, with Telia 5G reaching about 75% of the population by October 2023 and Elisa around 75% by early 2024. By 2024, 93.7% of the population were internet users and 92.9% of households had internet access. Starlink entered Estonia in August
12 Junho 2025
Internet Access in Lithuania

Internet Access in Lithuania

4G LTE coverage reaches over 99% of Lithuania’s population, and 5G was rolled out in 2022–2023, with Telia Lietuva activating 5G in 2022 and reaching about 95% of the population and 99% of the territory by summer 2023 after mid-2022 spectrum auctions of 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz. By 2023, fiber-optic (FTTP) lines passed about 61% of residential premises, giving roughly 78% FTTP coverage nationwide, while around 77% of homes had access to some fixed broadband (fiber, cable, or DSL). Rural fixed broadband coverage was about 69% of rural households in 2023, with only about 23–24% of rural homes having
15 Julho 2025
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Europe Economic Calendar Today, 4 December 2025: Eurozone Retail Sales Flat as Irish Economy Surges and Construction PMIs Edge Up

Europe Economic Calendar Today, 4 December 2025: Eurozone Retail Sales Flat as Irish Economy Surges and Construction PMIs Edge Up

LONDON / FRANKFURT – 4 December 2025 Europe’s economic calendar for Thursday, 4 December 2025, delivered a dense mix of hard data and policy events: flat eurozone retail sales, improving but still‑weak construction activity, a strong Irish domestic economy print, mixed industrial production in the Baltics and fresh bond auctions in France and Spain. Together, they sketch a picture of an economy that is stabilising, but far from firing on all cylinders. Snapshot: What Moved Europe’s Economic Calendar on 4 December 2025 Key scheduled and released items on today’s Europe economic calendar included: On top of the regular releases, the ECB‑IMF
4 Dezembro 2025
The Real Wi-Fight: Romania’s Race to Connect Every Corner of the Country

The Real Wi-Fight: Romania’s Race to Connect Every Corner of the Country

Romania’s first Internet connection was established in 1993 via ici.ro. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, urban residents built “rețele de cartier” by stringing Ethernet cables between buildings, helping the country leapfrog DSL. By 2020 Romania ranked third in the world for fastest fixed internet speeds, behind Singapore and Hong Kong. As of 2024, 88.6% of Romanian households had internet at home, with 92.5% of urban and 83.2% of rural households online. Fiber dominates the fixed network, with about 93% of localities passed by FTTH/B and about 93% of localities able to access gigabit speeds. Digi (RCS&RDS) had about
22 Junho 2025
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Rheinmetall AG Stock on 1 December 2025: Is the German Defence Champion a Buy After the Pullback?

Rheinmetall AG Stock on 1 December 2025: Is the German Defence Champion a Buy After the Pullback?

Rheinmetall AG (RHM, Xetra: RHM.DE) has slipped sharply in late November as peace-talk headlines and profit‑taking hit defence stocks. But with a record order backlog, ambitious 2030 targets and bullish analyst forecasts, many investors are asking whether the latest dip is a buying opportunity rather than the end of the run. 1. Where Rheinmetall stock stands on 1 December 2025 After a spectacular multi‑year rally, Rheinmetall’s share price has entered a volatile consolidation phase. The new trading week has started weak. On 1 December 2025, a Reuters market update reports that European equities are pulling back after a strong November,
1 Dezembro 2025
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Internet Access in Germany 2025: DSL, Cable, Fiber, 5G, and Satellite Connectivity

Internet Access in Germany 2025: DSL, Cable, Fiber, 5G, and Satellite Connectivity

By mid-2023, 99% of German households had access to fixed broadband, and 95.6% were covered by next-generation NGA networks (≥30 Mbps). As of the end of 2023, Germany had about 37.0 million fixed broadband lines in service. DSL remained the most prevalent technology, but only about 40% of households could get full FTTH/B fiber by late 2023. 4G mobile networks cover virtually 100% of the population, while 5G networks cover over 95% as of 2023. In rural areas, NGA coverage reached 86.3% of households, Very High Capacity Networks (fiber or DOCSIS 3.1 cable) reached about 57%, and FTTH coverage was
16 Julho 2025
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The High-Speed Secret: How Finland Quietly Built One of the World’s Best Internet Networks

The High-Speed Secret: How Finland Quietly Built One of the World’s Best Internet Networks

By September 2023, 71% of Finnish households had gigabit fixed broadband (1 Gbps) and 78% had 100 Mbps+ speeds, driven by 61% fiber access by end-2023. Finland aims for every household to have at least 100 Mbps connectivity (upgradeable to 1 Gbps) by 2025, with a national plan to reach full 1 Gbps nationwide by 2030. 4G coverage exceeds 99% of the population and 5G coverage reached about 88–90% by early 2023, with Elisa reporting 90% 5G home-area coverage by end of 2023 and DNA at 86% by March 2023. Starlink became available in Finland in late 2022, with a
24 Junho 2025
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The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

The Real State of Internet in Belarus: Wired, Wireless, and Watching from the Sky

By the end of 2022, 89.5% of Belarusians were online, with about 8.27 million internet users and 86.9% penetration recorded by early 2023. Beltelecom reported about 2.9 million GPON fiber subscribers by the end of 2022, a figure that reached roughly 3 million by mid-2024. Approximately 82.4% of small settlements with 50–100 inhabitants have access to fiber-optic broadband. As of April 2024, 4G LTE coverage reached 93% of Belarus’s territory and 99% of its population via the beCloud network. MTS Belarus had around 5.7 million mobile subscribers, A1 about 4.8 million, and life:) about 1.5 million as of 2024. There
1 Junho 2025
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Reconstruction of Ukraine: Plans, Progress, and Outlook (Mid-2025)

Reconstruction of Ukraine: Plans, Progress, and Outlook (Mid-2025)

Direct war damage reached $176 billion by end-2024, with 72% of losses concentrated in frontline regions Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kyiv oblasts. An updated needs assessment estimates Ukraine will require about $524 billion (€506 billion) over the next decade to repair and rebuild, roughly 2.8 times the country’s 2024 GDP. Housing is the largest reconstruction need at about $84 billion, with 13% of housing stock damaged or destroyed by December 2024, affecting more than 2.5 million households. As of early 2025, about 3.7 million people were internally displaced; 6 million Ukrainians had fled abroad; and 12.7 million would
13 Junho 2025
Starlink Global Coverage and Availability Report

Starlink Global Coverage and Availability Report

As of mid-2025, Starlink is available in over 110 countries and territories. In the United States, Starlink began with limited trials in August 2020 and the public beta “Better Than Nothing Beta” in November 2020, and now has nationwide commercial coverage including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with over 2.5 million subscribers as of early 2025. Canada went live in January 2021 after a late-2020 beta and now has broad coverage across all provinces. Mexico received a license in mid-2021, began service by November 2021, and by 2024 had over 160,000 subscribers, with the federal “Internet para Todos”
7 Junho 2025
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