Clearwire continues building and adding more cities to its network, but even with its second quarter results showing a record number of new customers (722, 000), it serves less than 2 million customers spread out over a population base of 56 million.
Her political affiliation is with Winaq, an indigenous movement which has its base in the Mayan indigenous population most of whom live in poor rural areas.
Since a segment of the population believes businessmen to be amoral or immoral by nature, the base motivation of profits is tolerable in, for example, the retail, manufacturing, and financial service sectors only as a necessary motivation due to the perceived flawed character of the individuals involved.
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One could think of many reasons for considering a human base on Mars - such as over-population on Earth - but Darlene Lim is mainly motivated by the thrill of exploration.
Unfortunately, growth of consumer base in these markets is limited to population growth and market share gains involve aggressive marketing and advertising, putting strain on operating margins.
Herein lies the problem, the widespread use of bandwidth caps in Canada is partially the result of a market defined by vast geographies and a limited population base.
The company also launched Danish and Norwegian versions in Q3 and surpassed the 10 million member mark in the U.K. Given that the U.K. has a population of little over 60 million, a 10 million member base implies an extremely high penetration among professionals.
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And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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For example, the U.S. has both the largest current installed base and market upside because of its unique, well-penetrated and large, affluent population.
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Remember that in 1941 the U.S. had a population of more than 130 million and a far more powerful industrial base than Japan had.
The user base can only grow so much more when you factor in the confines of the global population, and recent moneymaking schemes, like sponsored stories, have tempered profitability with popular concerns over privacy.
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The company said its customer base had grown by 172, 000 to 9.7 million (out of a total population in Britain of 61 million), with 18% of its customers now taking a package of television, broadband and phone services from BSkyB.
Developers such as Mr. Hadjipanayiotou hope that as a result of the gas discovery, large global companies will choose to base themselves in the country, whose population is about 1.1 million, according to the World Bank.
Nottingham has a significant population so in terms of being able to fill a stadium, in terms of latent fan base, it's very significant.
By the year 2050, the government projects, 40% of the population will be older than 65, straining public funds while relying on a dwindling tax base.
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Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic assemblyman who is now with the Wagner School at New York University and has been working with local officials, said the rising costs of health care and pensions of public workers is hitting local governments as cities outside New York City are losing population and tax base.
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