New Infocomm Initiatives Unveiled

18 June 2008

Excerpt from The Business Times

By: Amit Roy Choudhury

Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts

Dr Lee announced that the government is planning a Grid Market Hub to offer on-demand computing services from the national grid, which will ride on the proposed next-generation national broadband network (NGNBN)

The Grid Market Hub will offer services to anyone, any time and anywhere on a pay-per-use basis,' he added. According to him, SMBs can gain access to a range of productivity tools on a pay-per-use basis through this grid.

Three newly appointed National Grid Service Providers will be offering cost-effective and affordable computing services to businesses and individuals by the end of the year, the minister added.

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