It would provide a 100-gigabyte-per-second connection to serve the growing demand for Internet, data and voice capacity between South America and the rest of the world.

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WiMax promises a high-speed Internet connection of about 75 megabits per second.

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Sky Go Extra still works at slow internet speeds - however, Sky's other streaming services rely on the user having a 2 megabit per second connection.

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The g standard speeds up the connection considerably to 54 megabits per second from 11 MBPS, the top speed of existing Wi-Fi networks that use the 802.11b standard.

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