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COMPANY REPORT
Antennas
for Iceland
Reykjavik
Arnor Sigurthorsson
is one of the three
EICO co-owners.
apartments. In 2009 the three current owners took over the business
from the deceased founders brother,
and today EICO is well renowned all
over the place as a wholesaler and
retailer for antennas and all related
installation material. EICO serves customers from the whole of Iceland with
everything from satellite dishes and
TV antennas to complex distribution
components.
In 2012 weve begun to use GlobalInvacoms fibre-optic system, Arnor Sigurthorsson explains and leaves
no doubt that he is absolutely thrilled
by this technology. Were currently
supplying fibre-optic cables to more
than 100 apartments of a large residential complex. Some of the buildings are between 200 and 300 me-
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TV channels.
At the same time, EICO has been
a major player in the field of MMDS
installations, but the future of this
technology in Iceland is very uncertain. We expect the MMDS system
to be discontinued. The local MMDS
provider currently offers almost 100
TV channels over the S band, which
can be received with small parabolic
antennas. The MMDS system was
launched in 1993 and we experienced
an absolute peak in 1996. Since then,
however, MMDS customers have
is another EICO
co-owner.
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