"Basically this allows you to have greater bandwidth and lower cost, " says American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin.
It will all be possible because of sophisticated networks, powerful computing, low cost bandwidth terrestrial integration, and seamless switching.
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Level 3, for instance, reckons that Tiger alone will reduce the cost of bandwidth in Hong Kong by 60%.
Aetna felt two of the suppliers would require more bandwidth, at monumental cost.
The first innovation was the precipitous decline in the cost of bandwidth.
The answer to the bandwidth shortage could be cost-effective cell splitting, complementing the existing wide area base stations with a large number of smaller base stations.
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There the figure of merit is the cost of bandwidth, dollars per gigabyte not ounce, seemingly ethereal but anchored very much in the physical world of hundreds of thousands of miles of oceanic cables.
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Consumer advocates say all operators need to be more transparent about the cost of mobile bandwidth.
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Like Telseon, Yipes promises far more bandwidth at a far lower cost.
This helped too: Global, like some of its rivals, got around an accounting change by reporting cash earnings that did not directly reflect the cost of purchasing bandwidth.
And increasingly, Hyper Giant strategies are coalescing around similar infrastructure investments as the giants compete on content, capacity (bandwidth, storage, compute), cost and performance.
The Power6 chip also has configurable bandwidth, allowing customers to choose either high performance or low cost.
However, equipment to contact these satellites can cost thousands of dollars and none have ever been geosynchronous or high-bandwidth.
Its use in the business world came at a cost, however, with many companies disallowing use of Skype in networks due to its bandwidth-hogging potential.
Some even argue in favor of nationalizing existing infrastructure, in hopes that doing so will magically build out next generation networks with unlimited mobile bandwidth and fiber optic connections to 100% of the U.S. population, whatever the cost.
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