BT, the biggest ISP in the UK, is planning to offer the free kit to customers who opt for the company's Superfast Broadband 2, Ultrafast Fibre 100, or Ultrafast Fibre 250 services.
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Which would mean a whole new ultrafast medium for storing data.
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Huawei has partnered with Vodafone in developing an ultrafast network in Milan.
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AT&T is also facing skepticism over its vision of ultrafast wireless technology.
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China famously has facilitated much of the development of its ultrafast rail network.
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Best for Choice Best for Gigabit Voucher Best for Ultrafast Best for Vodafone Customers
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But most attendees were focused instead on new mobile phones and ultrafast wireless networks.
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To be sure, Hyperloop One isn't alone in its pursuit of ultrafast, tube-based travel.
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BT's cable competitor Virgin Media, owned by Liberty Media , is building out its ultrafast network.
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BT's cable competitor Virgin Media, owned by Liberty Media , is building out its ultrafast network.
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BT's cable competitor Virgin Media, owned by Liberty Media, is building out its ultrafast network.
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It is offering a range of contract and sim-only deals for the ultrafast service.
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"That investment will see us make ultrafast broadband available to 12 million homes and businesses... we believe our mixed technology approach is the best way to get affordable ultrafast speeds to as many people as possible in the shortest timeframe," the BT spokesman said.
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"That investment will see us make ultrafast broadband available to 12 million homes and businesses...we believe our mixed technology approach is the best way to get affordable ultrafast speeds to as many people as possible in the shortest timeframe," the BT spokesman said.
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Perhaps ironically, Giegel stressed the need to move slowly and iteratively as it develops its ultrafast technology.
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The decision creates the country's third largest wireless carrier amid a race to expand ultrafast 5G service.
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Open Fiber is currently rolling out an ultrafast broadband network across Italy in direct competition to TIM.
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And finding the ice required ultrafast measurements and fine control of temperature and pressure, advancing experimental techniques.
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Plus, the vehicles themselves will use the ultrafast networks to communicate with each other and smart infrastructure.
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Superfast connections typically range between 30 - 90Mbps, whereas ultrafast connections can push the limits of 1000Mbps (1Gbps).
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The Faroe Islands wanted to build a new ultrafast wireless network with fifth-generation technology, known as 210G.
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The joint venture "could reduce the intensity of competition" in the broadband and ultrafast broadband sectors, the statement said.
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It faces other calls on its cash, including investments in ultrafast fiber, pension deficit top-ups and dividend payments.
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Ultrafast speeds can reach up to 300Mbps, with a promise from BT that they will never drop below 100Mbps.
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Britain's new prime minister Boris Johnson wants to roll out ultrafast full-fiber broadband across the country by 2025.
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Britain's new prime minister Boris Johnson wants to roll out ultrafast full-fibre broadband across the country by 2025.
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Larger homes with plenty of users doing strenuous tasks at the same time should definitely consider an ultrafast plan.
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A spokesman for Vodafone said the company looked forward to speaking to Openreach about the ultrafast full-fibre broadband plan.
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"TIM therefore has no particular incentives for investing to rapidly deploy ultrafast broadband technology on a nationwide scale," it said.
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It would also include a road map of future investments to guarantee the continued rollout of ultrafast broadband in Italy.
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Due to the competition, prices are no longer obscenely high and there are plenty of ultrafast plans at affordable prices.
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Italian state-controlled utility Enel and phone incumbent Telecom Italia are both currently rolling out their own separate ultrafast broadband networks.
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Millennials love this new housing community in a forgotten stretch of California thanks to its ultrafast internet and dirt-cheap home prices
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BT CEO Patterson said if Ofcom capped superfast broadband prices it could undermine the case for new investment in an ultrafast network.
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If 5G can offer ultrafast mobile Internet speeds, then why should you care about how quickly one device can communicate with another?
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Customers need to buy 5G compatible smartphones to use the ultrafast services, which typically currently offer speeds 20 times faster than 4G.
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But a heated exchange last month with Italian government officials over its ultrafast broadband rollout plans ruffled feathers at the French giant.
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Enel Open Fiber, the vehicle created to execute the utility's project, will gradually bring ultrafast broadband to 224 Italian cities, Enel said.
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Enel's proposal has caused some friction with former phone monopoly Telecom Italia which has its own plans for connecting homes to ultrafast broadband.
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After winning the Nobel, Dr. Zewail switched gears to invent a new form of microscopy using ultrafast pulses of electrons instead of light.
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It takes billions of dollars to lay fiber in the ground — historically, the only way to deliver ultrafast internet speeds to residential homes.
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Mr. Stephenson has indicated this ultrafast next-generation wireless technology, known as fifth-generation technology or 5G, would compete with traditional TV services.
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The new technology will not only permit ultrafast video streaming and communication between, say, a self-driving car and a traffic control system.
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And it was the biggest point of emphasis on Sunday when the Milwaukee Bucks made a statement by throttling the ultrafast Sacramento Kings.
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She had an elegant style, a sweetheart grin and an ultrafast patter, with routines full of husband jokes, shopping jokes and kid jokes.
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Patuanelli said the government hoped for ultrafast broadband to be rolled out in 40% of the targeted areas, halving an initial 80% goal.
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Verizon's move into new cities is an attempt to entice wireless customers with the ultrafast speeds and low latency connections that 5G promises.
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"Our aim is to deliver the best converged network and be the leader in fixed ultrafast and mobile 1.33G networks," Jansen said on Thursday.
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Our research revealed an ultrafast ecology of self-organized aggregates that share operational information and propaganda, and whose rapid evolution drives the online support.
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Italy is pushing to create a single ultrafast broadband operator by merging Telecom Italia network with smaller rival Open Fiber to avoid duplicating investments.
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However, the proposal has caused some friction with Telecom Italia which has its own plans for connecting the country's homes up to ultrafast broadband.
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Tennis on grass, after all, is really in essence a bucolic, ultrafast version of hard court tennis infused with a heavy dose of nostalgia.
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The Italian government is pushing to create a single ultrafast broadband operator by merging TIM's network with Open Fiber to avoid duplicating costly investments.
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Open Fiber, controlled by utility Enel and state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, is rolling out an ultrafast broadband network to compete with Telecom Italia.
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CMU and its partner institutions use ultrafast laser light in their system, bouncing it off a wall to light an object hidden around a corner.
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Using a phased array laser atop a building in a city center, users could connect to ultrafast internet through a device called the Starry Point.
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Owning Metroweb, currently in the hand of the CDP and infrastructure fund F2i, would boost Telecom Italia's efforts to roll out ultrafast broadband across Italy.
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Its chips are used in most mobile phones, and its semiconductors will be used in the next generation of ultrafast wireless networks known as 5G.
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The Italian government sees the development of an ultrafast internet network as a top priority to modernise the country's phone infrastructure and to support business.
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Orange will in coming months distribute Canal Plus's French channels to ultrafast broadband customers, the company said, without elaborating on the price that will be offered.
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Four months later, Barratt has landed at Barefoot Networks, a maker of ultrafast networking equipment that's received a healthy dose of capital from his former employer.
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Among them are an ultrafast autofocus, 5-axis image stabilization, and a fully swiveling touchscreen, all meant to help you nail those easy-to-miss shots.
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Enel said last month it intends to spend 2.5 billion euros ($2.84 billion) in taking ultrafast broadband into the homes of 224 towns across the country.
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Electrify America planned to install 2,000 chargers across the country by this June, and the company installed its first ultrafast 350kW charger in California last month.
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Italy has been pushing for the creation of a single ultrafast broadband operator through a merger of TIM's network with Open Fiber to avoid duplicating investments.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian utility Enel said on Wednesday it planned to invest around 2.5 billion euros ($2.8 billion) to help develop a national ultrafast broadband network.
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Even if every rural area were hooked up to ultrafast broadband, places like London, Manchester and Glasgow have other advantages which make them an irresistible draw.
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Much of Kansas City's progress stemmed from its selection in 2011 as the first metropolitan area to get Google Fiber, an ultrafast internet and television service.
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Vodafone had said in September it was looking at laying its own ultrafast full-fibre broadband connections if it could find partners to share the costs.
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TL;DR: The best ultrafast broadband deals from Virgin Media now have no set-up fees, making your switch to a new broadband provider even cheaper.
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For starters, the choice when it comes to packages is great, with deals ranging from cheap options for students, to packages including BT Sport and BT Ultrafast.
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Dr. McNutt is leading a study to look at what it might take to build an ultrafast spacecraft that could leave the solar system in a hurry.
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The plan underlined its ambition to build its own ultrafast network reaching three million customers after it abandoned a plan to team up with M&G Prudential.
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Of the four new devices, one will work on next-generation ultrafast 5G cellular networks, which means it can download a movie in seconds rather than minutes.
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The two companies agreed to set up a joint venture in July to speed up the roll-out of an ultrafast broadband network in 29 cities across Italy.
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Italy's new populist government, meanwhile, is looking at the idea of creating a single infrastructure company to launch a wholesale ultrafast broadband network to rent to telecoms operators.
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The hyperloop, an ultrafast method of travel first developed by Musk in 2013, would only take 29 minutes to travel between New York City and DC, he claims.
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The company's newest line of ultrafast chargers, the PowerPort Atom series, is set to start shipping its first device later this month, the company announced today during CES.
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For example, wider coasters will have larger amounts of air friction, and newer coasters designed to be ultrafast will have lower air resistance than more old-school rides.
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Rome is pushing for the creation of a single ultrafast telecom network through a merger of Open Fiber with former monopoly Telecom Italia (TIM) to avoid duplicating investments.
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After a two-year delay and negotiations over its rollout, the company adopted a novel but cost-effective plan to bring ultrafast internet speeds to Kentucky's largest city.
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Phone group TIM said in March it would reach 95 percent of Italy's population with ultrafast broadband by mid 2018 - almost two years ahead of its original schedule.
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And the biggest shock is that the designers envision their Dubai hyperloop to be both ultrafast transportation system and a smartphone-based, on-demand service, à la Uber.
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Italy's populist government has been pushing for the creation of a single ultrafast broadband operator through a merger of Telecom Italia's (TIM) network with smaller rival Open Fiber.
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Italy ranks 25th out of 28 EU member states in terms of take-up of ultrafast Internet, also raising questions about the possible returns for massive broadband rollout.
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Kansas City's ultrafast wide receiver Tyreek Hill is expected to be back for the Chiefs (7-4) this week, so that number could grow by quite a few.
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The group will invest 9 billion euros in Italy over the next three years, and around 12 billion reais ($3.7 billion) in Brazil, mainly to boost ultrafast broadband coverage.
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"Our aim is to deliver the best converged network and be the leader in fixed ultrafast and mobile 5G networks," Philip Jansen said in his first set of results.
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This completely outrageous vision of the future comes courtesy of Hyperloop One, the occasionally troubled Los Angeles-based startup working on Elon Musk's vision of an ultrafast transportation system.
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"Our aim is to deliver the best converged network and be the leader in fixed ultrafast and mobile 5G networks," Philip Jensen said in his first set of results.
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Enel and Telecom Italia are rolling out separate ultrafast broadband networks in Italy and some politicians in Rome have said it might make sense for them to join forces.
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BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) - Greece secured EU regulatory approval on Wednesday for a 300-million-euro ($334.4 million) scheme to roll out an ultrafast broadband network across the country.
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ROME (Reuters) - The Italian government is looking into the idea of creating a single company to roll out a wholesale ultrafast broadband network, the Industry Minister said on Thursday.
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America is home to the world's fastest computer, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, but China is building more of the ultrafast machines than any other country.
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The report shows more than half of homes (53%) can get ultrafast broadband – defined as speeds of at least 300 Mbits per second - broadly in line with last year.
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On Monday sources said Italy's Open Fiber was close to sealing a deal with Acea to use the utility's infrastructure in Rome to roll out ultrafast broadband in the capital.
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TIM has long been seen as a takeover target because it is smaller than many of its European rivals and it has first-mover advantage in Italy's ultrafast broadband market.
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Technological advancement that changes the way everyday consumers live seems to come in pairs — affordable automobiles and television, the internet and cellphones, autonomous vehicles and ultrafast 5G mobile data networks.
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Italy's antitrust authority said on Tuesday it had launched an inquiry into possible abuse by Telecom Italia (TIM) in the rollout of ultrafast broadband in rural and sparsely populated areas.
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At the giant MWC Barcelona mobile show, attention is on foldable phones, above, and ultrafast wireless networks — not Huawei, the Chinese telecom company that is battling U.S. accusations of spying.
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Stewart has thrived as an every-down back after years of sharing carries with DeAngelo Williams, and Newton has figured out how to turn the ultrafast Ginn into a touchdown machine.
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On Wednesday, Italy's antitrust watchdog said it was investigating TIM over allegations, denied by the company, it used its dominant position to obstruct rival Open Fiber in its ultrafast broadband rollout.
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AT&T's new 5G Evolution service is also, notably, not the same thing as LTE-U, an ultrafast network technology that works on the same spectrum as wi-fi and Bluetooth.
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Telecom Italia has long been seen as a takeover target because it is smaller than many of its European rivals and it has first-mover advantage in Italy's ultrafast broadband market.
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The accord will give Sky Italia access to the fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) ultrafast broadband network Open Fiber is laying in more than 270 Italian towns and cities by 2022.
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In their stead would be a single unified technology that fills all of the memory requirements of a computer—that is, it will be ultrafast, infinitesimally small, and non-volatile, e.g.
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A spat between Rome and Telecom Italia's (TIM) chief executive over the rollout of ultrafast broadband has been resolved, Italian industry minister Carlo Calenda said in an interview published on Saturday.
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Italy's competition watchdog has extended a probe into Telecom Italia to see whether the former state telephone monopoly hindered new rival Open Fiber's efforts to roll out an ultrafast broadband network.
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Ofcom said it expected the lower charges to be passed on to residential customers, increasing competition while companies construct their own full-fibre ultrafast networks to compete with BT's Openreach infrastructure.
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The impact on the industry is amplified by the timing, as the United States and China race one another to dominate the next generation of ultrafast wireless networks, known as 5G.
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The big cloud data centers use tailored chips, high-density storage, so-called virtual-machine software, ultrafast networking and customized airflow systems — all to increase computing firepower with the least electricity.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone will partner with fibre network developer CityFibre to bring ultrafast broadband to 5 million UK homes and businesses by 2025, in a direct challenge to dominant rival BT .
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the companies developing a ultrafast mass-transit system, has partnered with one of Europe's largest railway operators to test some of its tech on their trains.
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But in recent weeks Cattaneo has engaged in a heated exchange with Italian Industry Minister Carlo Calenda and other government officials over the ultrafast broadband rollout across Italy, ruffling feathers at Vivendi.
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Telecom Italia, 24 percent owned by French media giant Vivendi, has pledged to spend 13 billion euros ($5.4 billion) over the next three years to speed up its ultrafast broadband (UB) rollout.
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Executives have promoted the deal as bringing many other benefits, like data sharing between the companies, but the ultrafast mobile video service stands out as one of the underpinnings of the acquisition.
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He is flanked by ultrafast skill players like Tyreek Hill and Kareem Hunt, and he has a knack for knowing when to take advantage of coverage mismatches on tight end Travis Kelce.
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Italy's biggest phone company is seeking partners to jointly rollout ultrafast fiber network access in 300 cities across the country by 2023, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.
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Kansas City is known for its ultrafast wide receivers, but other than a 28-yard completion to Sammy Watkins, the Chiefs have not had any other pass gain more than 493 yards.
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The ambitious tunnel-boring project was originally pitched as a high-tech, ultrafast way for passenger vehicles to circumvent traffic by traveling on electric sleds underground at speeds of up to 125 mph.
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Now, though, the team has developed an ultrafast optical laser system that works a bit like a strobe light, allowing them to acquire clear microscope images at a higher frame rate than before.
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The two companies agreed in July to invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.28 billion) in a joint venture to speed up the roll-out of an ultrafast broadband network in 29 cities across Italy.
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"[It]will take X-ray science to the next level, opening the door to a whole new range of studies of the ultrafast and ultrasmall," explained SLAC's Mike Dunne in a press release.
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Superfast broadband offers download speeds of at least 30 Mbits per second, while ultrafast broadband, typically delivered through fiber optics connections into the home, offers speeds of at least 300 Mbits per second.
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"Though all of our markets operate electronically using cutting edge, ultrafast technology, we believe nothing can take the place of human judgment and accountability," the NYSE website says about NYSE MKT's market model.
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ROME (Reuters) - A spat between Rome and Telecom Italia's (TIM) chief executive over the rollout of ultrafast broadband has been resolved, Italian industry minister Carlo Calenda said in an interview published on Saturday.
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Mobile carriers around the world have been preparing to build infrastructure using fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless technology, which promises to enable the ultrafast communications necessary for technologies such as self-driving cars.
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That's a lot of scratch for a transportation startup with no commercial product, no revenue stream, no government approval, and no proof that its ultrafast transit system would even be safe for human passengers.
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ROME, July 26 (Reuters) - Italy is interested in the idea of creating a single company to roll out a wholesale ultrafast broadband network across the country, Industry Minister Luigi di Maio said on Thursday.
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MILAN, June 27 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia will increase its ultrafast broadband coverage in Rome to 98 percent by the end of this year from a current 88 percent, CEO Flavio Cattaneo said on Tuesday.
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L) raised 200 million pounds ($2107 million) from investors on Thursday to help fund a plan to connect three million British homes and businesses with ultrafast broadband and keep it competitive with bigger rivals.
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So just as most people's cellphone bills have risen as they watch more videos and access other entertainment on their mobile devices, expect operators to charge a hefty premium for these new ultrafast services.
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S) unit Fastweb have agreed to create a joint venture that will invest 1.2 billion euros ($313 billion) to help speed up the rollout of an ultrafast broadband network in 29 cities across Italy.
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Edi was working for Gilbert when he and co-founders Marc Hudson and Randy Foster, both software developers for Quicken, came up with the idea of Rocket Fiber, the ultrafast Detroit internet service provider.
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Over the decades, companies like ours – which also serve millions of business and residential customers – have provided the major investment in infrastructure that has connected more and more businesses and homes to ultrafast broadband.
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Americans' visions of Japan too often extend to the remarkable and the unique — temples and cherry blossoms, ultrafast trains and ultraweird nightclubs — but for Issei Suda, the country was a wellspring of the ordinary.
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Nonetheless, that's a lot of money for a transportation startup with no commercial product, no revenue stream, no government approval, and no proof that its ultrafast transit system would even be safe for human passengers.
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Relations between French media group Vivendi and Flavio Cattaneo have been strained since the Italian CEO had a heated exchange with Rome over the rollout of ultrafast broadband across Italy, sources told Reuters last week.
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The former Italian phone monopoly said last week that it would set up a special company to develop its ultrafast broadband network to include areas of the country that would not normally be economically viable.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone is looking at investing in laying ultrafast full-fiber broadband connections to homes and businesses in Britain if it can find partners to share the costs, a top executive said on Wednesday.
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WILSON, N.C. — On the first day of the harvest last week, a line of trucks brimming with sweet potatoes rolled into Vick Family Farms, headed for a new packing plant that runs on ultrafast internet.
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According to them, Vivendi, which had previously praised Cattaneo for cutting costs at the indebted Italian firm, grew unhappy after he became embroiled in a row with Italy's government over the rollout of ultrafast broadband.
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Currently he is a professor at the École Polytechnique in France and director of the International Center for Zetta-Exawatt Science and Technology, which is devoted to the study of high-intensity, ultrafast laser pulses.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Vodafone wants the German government to facilitate the rollout of ultrafast fiber broadband connections to homes and businesses by investing in the "last mile" of networks, the company's Germany chief was quoted saying.
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ROME, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Open Fiber is behind schedule in plans to rollout ultrafast broadband in disadvantaged areas of Italy and needs to accelerate, Industry Minister Stefano Patuanelli said during a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday.
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The French company has long said Telecom Italia has good prospects, especially in view of its plans to build an ultrafast nationwide fiber optic broadband network in Italy - a pet project of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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BT said last year that 12 million premises would have ultrafast broadband connections by 2020, mostly using its G.Fast enhanced copper and fibre, but 2 million would have FTTP which can deliver more than 100 Mbps.
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Virgin Hyperloop One is currently testing the ultrafast technology in the desert outside Las Vegas, while Elon Musk has received tacit approval from regulators to begin exploring an underground hyperloop between New York City and Washington.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy is pushing to create a single ultrafast broadband operator by merging Telecom Italia's copper and fiber network with smaller rival Open Fiber to avoid duplicating investments and narrow the digital divide with Europe.
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That means the Obama administration and Europeans claimed a Pyrrhic victory, mothballing obsolete Iranian IR-1 centrifuges while acquiescing to the Iranian demand for the development of the next generation of ultrafast centrifuges for uranium enrichment.
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Today she runs a laboratory for students at Waterloo called the Ultrafast Laser Group, where one of her favorite activities is to generate a full color spectrum of white light from a narrow bandwidth of wavelengths.
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In a letter on Monday, the committee said that a deal for Qualcomm, whose semiconductors will be used in the next generation of ultrafast wireless networks known as 20163G, could pose a risk to national security.
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To show the utility of 5003G, the Chinese company ZTE programmed a band of industrial robots to play piano and drums at the event to illustrate how the ultrafast networks can be used by heavy machinery.
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Cattaneo, who previously won praise from Vivendi for cutting costs at the indebted Italian firm he has led for just over a year, has been embroiled in a row with Italy's government over rollout of ultrafast broadband.
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This could pave the way to a single ultrafast broadband operator through a merger of TIM's network with Open Fiber, which is co-owned by state-lender CDP and Italy's biggest utility Enel, to avoid duplicating investment.
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CDP also has a 50 percent stake in Open Fiber, a TIM rival which is building an ultrafast fibre broadband network in the country, and the planned stakebuilding could lead to further cooperation between the two companies.
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The joint venture between Telecom Italia and Swisscom unit Fastweb, unveiled late on Tuesday, will invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.32 billion) to help speed up the rollout of an ultrafast broadband network in 29 cities across Italy.
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MILAN, April 13 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia has signed an agreement with Italy's biggest regional utility A2A to help it roll out its ultrafast broadband network, two sources said on Thursday, as it squares up to rival Enel .
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The wireless industry says this slice of the spectrum is crucial for rolling out ultrafast 5G services — but the decision marks a defeat for satellite companies that now hold the airwaves and wanted to sell them privately.
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After rejecting Telecom Italia's appeal against a tender launched by state-owned Infratel for ultrafast broadband rollout in so-called non-economically viable areas, the Lazio administrative court also rejected Fastweb's appeal, Il Sole 24 Ore reported.
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The development of ultrafast internet is a top priority for the government, which last year drafted in Enel to help bridge the digital divide between Italy and the rest of Europe after claiming TIM was dragging its feet.
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MILAN, March 28 (Reuters) - Italy is pushing to create a single ultrafast broadband operator by merging Telecom Italia's copper and fiber network with smaller rival Open Fiber to avoid duplicating investments and narrow the digital divide with Europe.
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MILAN, June 26 (Reuters) - Italy's Open Fiber is close to agreeing a deal with ACEA to use the utility's infrastructure for the roll-out of ultrafast broadband in Rome, two sources close to the matter said on Monday.
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Enel Open Fiber, the vehicle created to execute the project, will gradually bring ultrafast broadband to 224 Italian cities, it said, adding that about 7.5 million homes would be covered in the first few years of the plan.
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LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - British telecoms giant Vodafone said on Thursday it would partner with CityFibre , a wholesale fibre network infrastructure provider, to bring ultrafast broadband to up to 5 million homes and businesses in Britain by 2025.
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BT's Fiber To The Premises (FTTP) packages are still being rolled out to homes, and the company expects to offer average download speeds of 145Mbps and 300Mbps through its two "Ultrafast" deals to 12 million homes this year.
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AT&T, which offers two types of 5G — 5G Evolution, which is incrementally faster than 4G, and 5G Plus, which is the ultrafast version — said it expected 5G Plus to reach parts of 2.1 cities by early 2020.
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Diagram: Jinyang Liang and Lihong V. WangThe coolest thing about all of this is that the high-powered streak camera records ultrafast events in a single burst, which allows it to capture unpredictable occurrences that may not repeat themselves.
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"We are increasingly confident in the environment for investment in the UK." Britain has lagged European rivals in building ultrafast connections, and BT, which operates the national fiber and copper-based network, has come under pressure to do more.
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"We are increasingly confident in the environment for investment in the UK." Britain has lagged European rivals in building ultrafast connections, and BT, which operates the national fibre and copper-based network, has come under pressure to do more.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia will go ahead with plans to roll out an ultrafast broadband network in rural or sparely populated areas of Italy despite objections from the government, the phone group's chief executive told a newspaper on Sunday.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Enel agreed a deal on Monday that could see it spend more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) to buy Latin American fiber company Ufinet International, as the Italian company looks to advance its ultrafast broadband ambitions.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd expects to lead 7003G development in Brazil, but sees some challenges for the country to catch up with other Latin American markets in deploying the ultrafast service, an executive told Reuters.
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MILAN, July 4 (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust authority has launched a probe into possible abuse by Telecom Italia (TIM) of its dominant market position in the rollout of ultrafast broadband in rural and sparsely populated areas, the watchdog said on Tuesday.
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Italy's Open Fiber said on Friday banks, state lender CDP and the European Investment Bank had signed off on a 210 billion euro project finance package to help fund the ultrafast broadband network it is rolling out across the country.
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But, the government needed to take decisive action to allow BT to make a fair return, mandate that customers switch to the ultrafast service and give telecom firms the same permission to dig up roads and access locations as other utilities.
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Broadband provider Talk Talk said it would raise up to 200 million pounds ($278.46 million) in a placing to help fund a plan to connect three million British homes and businesses with ultrafast broadband and keep it competitive with bigger rivals.
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The company is also spending heavily on rolling out an ultrafast broadband network in Italy, hoping to fend off growing competition from the likes of power utility Enel which plans to use its pylons and ducts to lay fibre optic cables.
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With the popularity of American distance running peaking, and our Facebook feeds filling up with posts from our friends noisily training for marathons, the quiet, dedicated and ultrafast way that Julio races the New York City Marathon every year is remarkable.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Open Fiber said on Friday banks, state lender CDP and the European Investment Bank had signed off on a 3.5 billion euro project finance package to help fund the ultrafast broadband network it is rolling out across the country.
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For more news, click Telecom Italia and Swisscom unit Fastweb have agreed to create a joint venture that will invest 20.9910 billion euros ($1.32 billion) to help speed up the roll out of an ultrafast broadband network in 29 cities across Italy.
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Italy's biggest phone group also said it would spend around 227.28 billion euros ($21 billion) in its home market over the next three years, with 20.9294 billion euros of the total going on speeding up the installation of a nationwide ultrafast broadband network.
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"Like in a conventional particle accelerator it is important to avoid accidental collisions of the quasiparticles somewhere in-between," Rupert Huber, a study co-author and leader of the Ultrafast Quantum Electronics and Photonics group at the University of Regensburg, told me.
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LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - BT proposed on Thursday building a network to connect 10 million homes with ultrafast full-fibre broadband by the mid-403s, but told rivals which would also use the network to give their backing so the investment made commercial sense.
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Telecom Italia (TIM) is considering selling some of its non-core assets, including Persidera and submarine network business Sparkle, to cut debt and focus on rolling out an ultrafast broadband network in Italy, investing in 5G infrastructure while expanding in Brazil, its only foreign market.
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He said the pace of 5G deployment in Brazil would depend on each carrier's strategic plan, but it could take several months to switch on the ultrafast network once they win the spectrum rights, as work to avoid interference from other services is required.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia has put a plan to roll out ultrafast broadband in rural areas of Italy on hold, two sources familiar with the matter said, suspending a project that triggered a row with the government and contributed to the imminent departure of its CEO.
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Vodafone and Wind were due to meet with representatives of Metroweb's shareholders on Tuesday to discuss their potential role as clients of the ultrafast broadband that could emerge from the yet-to-be-finalised agreement between Metroweb and Telecom Italia, two sources close to the matter said.
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Released today, the study examined where the ultrafast transportation system should be built (along the I-70 corridor), how many riders it would attract (6,291 during peak hours), and how much money it could save commuters who rode the high-speed transit system ($2700 million per year).
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Souring relations between TIM and Rome took a turn for the worse last year when the government, keen to bring ultrafast Internet to all Italians to boost growth, drafted in state-controlled utility Enel to help with the broadband rollout after claiming TIM was dragging its feet.
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Genish said the meeting with Calenda had been "very positive", but also said the plan - aimed at guaranteeing quality of the network, equal access to all and future investments in ultrafast broadband rollout - was at an early stage and needed to be examined by the company's board.
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CDP and Telecom Italia agree over a price tag for Open Fiber of around 2 billion euros, La Repubblica said, adding the plan to create a single ultrafast broadband operator through a merger of TIM's network with Open Fiber could be discussed by TIM's board on Aug. 2300.
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Renzi, who has placed the project to connect the whole country up to ultrafast Internet services at the heart of his agenda, has enlisted the help of state-controlled Enel to lay fiber-optic cable all the way into homes and businesses using alongside its existing power network.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia has put its plan to roll out ultrafast broadband in rural areas of Italy on ice, two sources said, suspending a project at the heart of a row with the government that is seen as a reason for the imminent departure of the group's boss.
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In a briefing, Genish said he saw clear economic benefits of such a tie-up, especially given the long timeframe for recouping the costs of multibillion euro investments to bring ultrafast internet to homes in Italy, where demand for speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second is still very low.
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We already know some answers: software-driven advances in logistics and warehousing are behind seemingly-simple things like Amazon's ultrafast shipping, and services like Instacart and Uber have taught users to expect real-world results from pushing a smartphone button — even if they're filling in the gaps with other humans for now.
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There is Ultra Fair Super Whitenizer by Caring Chemistry promising "restorative ultrafast action whitening" and Grace White 100% Double Action Whitening Body Lotion by Grace White Cosmetique that even features helpful before-and-after photos; the "before" photo is a light-brown pair of legs, crossed, while the "after" shot shows white legs.
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On July 20th, the Tesla / SpaceX / Boring Company / OpenAI CEO tweeted that he had received "verbal [government] approval" to build a hyperloop between New York City and Washington, DC. Today, Bloomberg is reporting that Musk won't just be digging the tunnel for the hyperloop, he also intends to build the entire ultrafast transit system himself.
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"We have friends that moved to the U.S. when they were one or two years old that are now fearing that they're going to be deported — they're more American than we are," says Edi, 31, who is the co-founder and COO of Rocket Fiber, an ultrafast Detroit internet service provider that has generated 70 jobs since its launch two years ago.
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Despite being based in LA and building its test track in Nevada, Hyperloop One has mostly focused its attention outside the US. The company has feasibility studies underway in the United Arab Emirates, Finland and Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Moscow, and the UK. The company is also eyeing less than a dozen regions in the US as possible future locations for its ultrafast, futuristic transportation system.
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Despite being based in LA and building its test track in Nevada, Hyperloop One has mostly focused its attention outside the US. The company has feasibility studies underway in the United Arab Emirates, Finland and Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Moscow, and the UK. The company is also eyeing fewer than a dozen regions in the US as possible future locations for its ultrafast, futuristic transportation system.
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Today, executives from the Los Angeles-based startup Hyperloop One will gather in Washington, DC, to make two announcements: one is that its test track in the Nevada desert is finally complete and ready to host the first full-system test in the next few months; and the other is that Hyperloop One is eyeing less than a dozen regions in the US as possible future locations for its ultrafast, futuristic transportation system.
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Ofcom reserves the right to completely split Openreach off from BT later on Ofcom will also start ranking providers, acting as an independent watchdog for the "new universal right to fast, affordable broadband for every household and business in the UK." Combined with the other conclusions from the strategic review, the body says it will promote the installation of "ultrafast" broadband networks like those currently being laid down by Google Fiber, rather than copper-based connections BT had planned to put down.
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