"Aircraft carrier show nation's might" fireworks are also a big hit, it adds.
Importantly, the Center's symposium also offered cause for hope that the Reagan national security legacy is truly a living one, epitomized by the new carrier that should serve this nation for the next four decades.
In the longer term, however, China Mobile, which has over 600 million 2G subscribers currently, stands to gain heavily from this transition as handset makers bring out compatible smartphones and the carrier gradually rolls out a nation-wide LTE network.
Japan Airlines, the nation's flag carrier, has known that for years.
When Sir Richard Branson this week announced plans to enter space tourism with a company called Virgin Galactic, his Virgin group also unveiled a new online music store and a start-up airline in Nigeria that will become that nation's flag carrier.
State-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines, the nation's only other carrier, was rebuilding its fleet from one plane and had jobs to protect.
But the unavailability of an unsubsidized iPhone on the nation?s largest wireless carrier is a serious deterrent to widespread 3G adoption.
The nation's fifth largest carrier, Houston-based Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ), said Saturday that they plan to cut their long term schedule by 20% and will lay off 12, 000 workers.
Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.
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Its so far successful facedown with the once-powerful mechanics' union may have broad echoes across a beleaguered airline industry as the nation's fourth-largest carrier takes a step toward getting its labor costs under control--a necessity if it's to avoid a bankruptcy filing this fall.
Perhaps understanding that the wireless customer base at large can be both fickle and impatient, the nation's fourth-largest carrier is wasting no time getting its 3G equipment set up -- the rollout begins, like, now (they claim half of NYC's hardware is already in place) and will continue through the next several years, with compatible handsets and peripherals hitting retail sometime in mid 2007.
But today the government has not given any commitment to deploy both vessels, and it seems quite likely that the nation's huge investment in ships and planes will produce a one carrier "force" with a less capable jet.
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Washington (CNN) -- The USS Enterprise is the nation's oldest active duty warship, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and a history-making symbol of America's naval might for half a century.
The aircraft is well-suited to conducting carrier operations against adversaries such as China, and would impose a huge cost burden on any nation trying to defeat its stealth features with advanced radars.
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It was the 37th straight win in the Carrier Dome for the Orange (20-3, 8-2 Big East), extending the nation's longest active home streak in Division I.
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