Our ICT network

Sweden is second only to the US in the use of information technology and related communications techniques (ICT). It is also no wonder that one of the world's leading companies in this business, Ericsson, is a Swedish enterprise. Needless to say the region offers an excellent framework for companies which operate in the field of information technology or else rely on computer-based business in their everyday work.

Extensive resources at low cost

The regional broadband network is extensive and can easily be measured against the foremost in the world. We offer your company communication capacities to the Internet of 1-3 mbit per second through radio link, for example, and 5-10 Gbits per second through the local fibre optical net. Solutions can of course be provided to suit your company's very special needs.

The close co-operation between the local industrial community and the energy company ensure that the cost level is very low. With the de-regulation of the telecommunications market many years ago in Sweden, telephone rates today are among the cheapest in Europe.

Telecommunications

Sophisticated technique and professional compentence in the radio networks area has been present in the region for a long time, provided by the Ericsson Radio Systems unit situated in Gävle, the largest city of the province.

Geographic Information System

This is an interesting ongoing project in the region, in co-operation with the Gävle-based state-owned National Land Survey of Sweden. It aims at commercialising the organisation's know-how and competence in its extensive land-survey routines, which rate among the best in the world. The program can successfully locate the fastest routes, the best markets, target populations, number of companies and other topographic data.

IT as a learning tool

Information technology is fast becoming an important tool in any business. In the region we work with long-term programmes from very early on, concentrating on every potential education level, from day-care centres to high schools. At selected schools in the region projects currently under way offer students access to their own computer with their own e-mail address.