Suddenly, he had the rarest of commodities: national radio spectrum with which to build a data network.
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Ofcom, the media and telecoms regulator, said in August that the company could use spectrum it already owned to build a data network five times nippier than existing services (which it has branded EE).
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In 2000 Equant approached the state-owned China Netcom and agreed to teach it how to build a national data network for China.
Dish Network just recently received approval to use some spectrum it owns to build a mobile-data network.
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General Motors could build a powerful wireless data network with its OnStar satellite system, but it says OnStar will remain ISP-neutral for now.
However, the FCC had already assigned the adjacent block of spectrum for use by public safety to build a nationwide interoperable data network.
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It is spending billions to build a network of data centres, a huge infrastructure to cope with the expected demand for all its software-plus-services business.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
Google is using its vast network of web data on prices to build a Google Price Index, the Financial Times newspaper reports.
Today at Qualcomm's What's Next in Mobile event in Santa Clara, California, the company told us more about its plan to help build a network that'll be able to serve up the data all its SoC's need.
And by profiting from data it gleans from how people use a network it operates, Google could build a business more cheaply than traditional carriers do today.
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The carrier also is spending billions of dollars to build out a next-generation broadband network, using a technology called LTE, that can handle more wireless data traffic.
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