But the installation and footprint has been largely market demand driven and not necessarily strategic.
It fell in 2009 due to a fall in demand driven by high unemployment rates during the economic slowdown.
The metals and coal sectors aren't demand driven, but they are price sensitive to the dearth of incremental supply, particularly coal, iron ore and even copper with all its mine outages.
The company supplies broadband operators with the tools and platforms they need to deliver converged IP video solutions, carrier-grade telephony, demand driven video, next-generation advertising, network and workforce management solutions, access and transport architectures and ultra high-speed data services.
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For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
Innovative solutions like demand-driven forecasting, in which real-time customer demand information is translated into super-lean production and delivery, have allowed companies to dramatically reduce inventory levels and the costs associated with them.
Six pilot communities (one in each country) will be selected in a demand-driven manner.
But similar demand-driven growth in things like consumer durables, automobiles and motorized two-wheelers is not evident.
Horse slaughter is demand-driven, and when California banned horse slaughter in 1998, horse theft fell by 39.5%.
Technologies need to advance in a logical supply-and-demand-driven order rather than the fits and starts of porkbarrel science.
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Like all demand-driven gold spikes, the latest one is gradually being worked off.
And niche or remnant inventory sells for higher prices due to demand-driven pricing.
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Management today is using a rulebook based on a decade of tactics that no longer work in a demand-driven market.
On the other side of the ledger, big company executives tend to be demand-driven by initiatives handed down from the top.
It's a demand-driven commodity, where the reserve margin on the supply side has shrunk to under 2 million barrels per day.
Spectrum itself is a limited resource that is in huge demand, driven by the explosion in smartphones, tablets and other wireless applications.
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Worldwide energy demand, driven by the population growth and industrialization of the developing world, will expand by 40% in the next 20 years.
The trifecta includes: global warming, energy security and explosive global demand growth driven largely emerging economies like China and India.
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If the demand is driven by rising consumption, the shift could propel rice prices higher over the next few years or decades, analysts said.
The upgrade, he writes in a research note, reflects improving 2011 prospects for NAND flash memory demand, driven by tablets, smart phones and solid-state drives.
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Who has the time, and what is the benefit, of planning in a world of continuous change, demand-driven marketing, and intense pressure for instantaneous responses?
Already, growing demand has driven up the price of recreational ranches.
At the same time, greater emphasis on a demand-driven visa system would create new ways for workers to enter the U.S. who will be increasingly needed as baby boomers retire.
Despite the large demand-driven market for home ownership, the required eco-system to fully serve the market is immature and MeXvi is contributing to its development by reaching out to financing institutions to make its product accessible and scalable.
Furthermore, while much of the recent oil-price increase was demand-driven, and thus expected to have relatively benign economic effects, any sizeable outages owing to Katrina could cause a supply shock similar to those that repeatedly battered the world economy in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, immigration and rising numbers of single-person households have driven demand for rented accommodation.
There is a clear demand for purpose driven products and proof that companies should be driven by values.
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Demand is being driven by business and even by State governments who have urged auto makers to develop more natural gas models.
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Corporate contract gains and revenues from new products and services combined with solid demand environment have driven revenue momentum in Q3 2011 for Delta.
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