It has created a city-wide network in which physicians can, with the patient's permission, log on to a complete medical history that includes all previous care at the 11 participating hospitals.
For the first time, officials are moving to shut down an entire New York City charter-school network.
If you're unsure, you can ask the discount carriers whether they use Sprint's network in your city -- and whether it's a WiMAX network or not.
The company is already experimenting with its one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, offering lightening-fast broadband and TV services.
Earthlink has signed a contract with Philadelphia to build the city's Wi-Fi network, and will join with Google to do the same in San Francisco.
The city already has a fiber-optic network in place, built in 1995 with the aim of luring Internet service providers to hook up citizens with low-cost Internet.
In one, the Californian city of Santa Barbara set up a city-wide peer-to-peer network (in which the computers of different practices and clinics can talk directly to one another).
Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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But he found that a network of the city's anti-crime cameras, mounted on streetlights, was still pretty much intact.
In a city full of mobile phones - now rendered near-useless by network congestion - long queues formed at payphones.
The city of Philadelphia is the most high-profile and most ambitious network.
Philadelphia's plan calls for the creation of a new wireless network that will blanket the entire city, providing high-speed Internet connectivity to residents and visitors.
The Somali group has an extensive presence in Nairobi -- home to a quarter-million Somali refugees -- and operates a network of safe houses in the city.
StreetsPAC will provide greater flexibility than what advocates can expect from some of the nonprofit organizations that already vocally support amenities, such the city's growing network of bike lanes and its impending bike-sharing program.
Now commanders in northern Iraq's largest city, Mosul, say they've uncovered a network of Mafia-style rackets.
Officials are putting details together for the Olympic route network that will allow athletes to move around the city easily -- "as competitors, rather than commuters, " Coe said.
Such a gap, she argued, poses a problem for the very system the city has pledged to provide: a hop-on, hop-off network to shorten walking commutes and connect neighborhoods poorly served by mass transit.
Torben Stentoft, the boss of Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen and the head of the city's network, says that his main concern is the nitty-gritty of dealing with all of his legacy computers which need to be tweaked or replaced.
The city of York just announced a plan to install a network of pay-as-you-go charging stations for electric vehicles, the first such system to launch in the UK. York is already home to 12 free charging points, but these are located in lesser-known areas such as private parking lots.
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An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, would befuddle the network as the phones busily hopped from one base-station to the next.
"Sprint and our vendors have been deploying Network Vision sites all across the country for the last several months and we are thrilled to deliver our new network to our customers today in and around Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, San Antonio and Waco, " said Bob Azzi, senior vice president-Network, Sprint.
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But some citizens' groups are still not satisfied - they say public transport should be beefed up and the city's thriving railway network extended.
These "environmental sensor stations" would use the phone network to offer real-time and hyper-local records of the city's rain levels, pollution and other environmental conditions.
Instead, Scaglia has chosen to collaborate with AEM, the recently privatized Milanese electrical utility, to build a home- base network alongside of AEM cables in and around Italy's richest city, Milan, which accounts for 30% of the country's telecom spending.
Fifer says the city also plans to experiment with municipal uses of the network, like setting up Wi-Fi-enabled traffic cameras, trash cans that can wirelessly call the city when they need to be emptied or traffic meters that call in when they're overdue.
The project is being managed by Wireless Philadelphia, a city-sponsored nonprofit group which plans to contract with a private firm to build and maintain the network, and then will rent access to service providers.
He says he's made hundreds of stand-up comedy appearances a year, including at a New York City comedy club where he has performed since 1997, on network television, as a warm-up for Comedy Central audiences and in film.
If CROWDFUNDx works in Mexico as well as it has in 3 U.S. local initiatives, then these communities will help identify a handful of top investment-worthy businesses in each city, and bring investors to the table over the Crowdfunder social network.
No-one was injured in the attack on the Televisa network's station in the northern city of Monterrey.
Shenzhen stands out as a city that has deployed several hundred all-electric taxis, all-electric municipal buses and a charging station network.
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