Rovers' spokesman John Byrne said the sudden worldwide attention on the club has not distracted players from their important League of Ireland games.

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"As an industry, we spent 20 years building for voice capacity and 10 years fixing it that so that it would work for mobile data, " said John Byrne, an analyst at research firm International Data Corp.

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John Byrne, former head of compliance at the American Bankers Association, recently told congressional committees that regulatory requirements for dealing even with legit money-transfer services had become so burdensome for banks that they were filing suspicious-activity reports at every turn and shutting down remittance accounts.

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