The bill would allocate additional spectrum to the Public Safety community for a nationwide broadband network and provide secondary wireless broadband services to most of rural America.
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In the maturing Russian market, it has shifted its focus from growing the subscriber base to increasing ARPU. Next year's launch of its third-generation broadband network will expand value-added services and should boost ARPU even further.
This all-fiber network will deliver broadband voice, and IPTV services to remote rural areas.
The tablets were too bulky, too slow, too expensive, and wireless connectivity had not yet advanced to broadband Wi-Fi and wide-area network services.
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While the wireless industry has applauded this move to allocate more spectrum for broadband services, the implications for existing network operators and other companies that might want to bid on this new spectrum are many.
As texting, broadband, and other services were rolled out, network operators began to demand that handset vendors build the phones they thought would sell.
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Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes) is the world's leading provider of satellite broadband for home and office, delivering innovative network technologies, managed services, and solutions for enterprises and governments globally.
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The company is already experimenting with its one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, offering lightening-fast broadband and TV services.
Nokia Siemens Networks will target end-to-end mobile network infrastructure and services, with a particular emphasis on mobile broadband.
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Unlike its cable counterparts, Dish Network has focused purely on pay-TV rather than bundling broadband and telephone services with it.
With sufficient spectrum to provide endurance (another dimension of network quality), 4G operators could offer broadband consumers the full suite of services to which they have become accustomed on wireline connections in the near future.
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Dish Network has stated that almost 100% of its broadband subscribers also have its pay-TV services, implying that the bundling approach is helping.
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Linked into the city's new fibre optic network, WiBro promises to deliver broadband mobile data speeds far in excess of most western 3G services.
Verizon has been delivering high-quality video entertainment to its FiOS and High Speed Internet broadband customers since 2005 with online services like Starz Play, ESPN360, Disney Connection, YES Network and NFL Game Extra.
The alliance will enable Deutsche Telekom to deliver next-generation television, as well as complementary interactive services and a range of entertainment products, over its ultra high-speed VDSL broadband network.
Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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