The biggest is the degree of competition in the market, which governments have generally encouraged by allowing the construction of rival infrastructure to the telephone network, usually in the form of cable networks.

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The Nexus 7000 is designed to combine those three types of cables in a new, smarter form of Ethernet cable.

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Going beyond the core set of TV services, the company may then look at providing other cable station in a live form.

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Mr Cable had suggested that a form of graduate tax should be considered in the search for a fairer way of paying for university.

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They translate analog signals that move through a cable or over the air into digital bits, which form the binary code that's comprehensible to a computer.

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The looming capacity crunch of the 1990s was averted not just by slower demand growth, but also dramatically increased supply, in the form of big investments in fibre-optic cable and technical tricks that squeezed more data through the pipes.

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But the company's bosses would be obliged to fill out a six-page form and have their fingerprints taken if they wanted to visit the store, Mr Cable said.

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