What would have been more interesting is to have the 4G spectrum administered in a similar way to other public utilities, where the actual backbone of the system is administered by one company, and the network providers would buy capacity and transmission from the network pool.
Family caregivers are the backbone of the support system for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities.
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What may be holding Europe back as much as anything is the lack of a centralised retail payments mechanism an unglamorous back-office process that is the backbone of any financial system.
"Fixing the school system is a backbone of making this city livable, " he said.
He is the director of the National Security Agency, responsible for ensuring that the backbone of the military defense system is reliable and secure.
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And beyond making insurance more affordable and more secure, reform also will mean changes that make it easier for you -- the backbone of the health care system -- to do your jobs.
Despite a number of significant shortcomings 401(k) plans are the backbone of the American retirement system, and we know that families that have 401(k) plans have a great deal higher net worth than those without access.
It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.
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It also carries the advanced AEGIS air defence system that is rapidly becoming the backbone of US naval radar.
Ten divisions equipped with the new S-500 anti-missile system are set to become the backbone of the country's missile defences.
"TECS really is the backbone or the mainframe, the real operating system for Customs and Border Protection that has the information from other law enforcement agencies, " said Kathy Kraninger, a former Homeland Security official and now a security consultant.
Using DDN's SFA12K-40 storage systems as the backbone for Spider II, this new file storage system is designed with 40 petabytes of raw capacity and is capable of ingesting, storing, processing and distributing research data at unprecedented speed.
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Second, an extensive automated test system was already in place to provide the backbone of the new methodology.
At the time, DPTG helped finance the backbone of what would become the Polish telecommunications infrastructure, a system that links the Baltic coast to the south of Poland, known as the North-South Link.
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If we migrate Medicare over to a defined-contribution system, with the popular Medicare Advantage program as the backbone, we can get a lot closer to making sure that Medicare is still around when the next generation retires.
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