Alternative news networks circulate documentaries, films, and articles from independent journalists and bloggers.
With uncertainty surrounding the Net Neutrality issue, it is easy to see how content and over-the-top service providers could benefit from deploying their own networks as an alternative to conventional telco and mobile carrier networks.
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Readers struggling with slow mobile internet connections may soon have a really cool alternative to cellular networks.
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Intel takes its know-how in digital technology, manufacturing and marketing to team up with content providers to effectively create a parallel universe for content, a shadow alternative to cable networks.
It will feature news, lifestyle, documentary, talk and debate, and it seeks to be an alternative to traditional Hispanic networks.
There have been a decline in ad dollars on broadcast networks in general as viewership has become fragmented across cable networks and alternative platforms.
The rollout will give developers an alternative to large mobile ad networks like Google-owned AdMob.
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Alternative B would require two independent networks for each verification method, PIN and signature, for a total of four networks to each card.
For Mr Fensom, neither BT nor Virgin offer "true next generation services" but he does hope that the Manchester example will offer proof to government that there are alternative ways of rolling out such networks.
While they are also hoping to get picked up by networks looking for an alternative to the big three of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, you can be sure that their own handset (due out in 2014) is going to be sought after from a small part of the smartphone world.
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But these services and Europe's rail and road networks could provide some with alternative means of getting to their destinations.
In the 1940s the church embraced the welfare state as a modern, professional alternative to charity, willingly dismantling voluntary relief networks and signing over thousands of church schools, hospitals and other bodies to the state, notes Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University.
As the analysts report, new Federal Reserve rules assert that alternative payment systems like PayPal are not payment card networks subject to a provision known as the Durbin amendment that caps interchange fees.
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Cable networks are important because they provide "an ideal alternative infrastructure for the provision of a full range of broad-based services, " notably the Internet, the commission official explained.
As enterprises struggle to keep consumer smartphones and tablets off their corporate networks to avoid security breaches, Fujitsu is taking an alternative approach with the introduction of a companion device designed for maximum interoperability with business environments.
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Another alternative would be for T-Mobile to pick up spectrum from Dish Networks.
Social networks are typically free to join and can be used for marketing, or even as an alternative to a company website.
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