With demand growing for prepaid service, some carriers are seeking a competitive edge.
With signs of weak PC demand growing, the Street has lately been chopping estimates for various key players in the electronics supply chain.
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That growth, in turn, reflects PVC demand growing at 5% this year and an expected 4% to 5% rate for the rest of the decade.
As for the broad outlook for IT demand, Spierkel says the market is still healthy, with IT demand growing at 1.5x-2x the overall GDP growth rate.
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But with demand growing by thousands of percent, and with local zoning authorities slow to approve new tower construction or even modifications, more spectrum is essential.
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Market analysts see annual bandwidth demand growing 75% or more.
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Global energy demand is growing at the rate of a France every two years.
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Fundamentals are the driving factor this time: supply is tight and demand is growing.
Even so, internal natural gas demand is growing by 9% a year.
George's Church of England and at our most recent meeting we had a record number of 42 visitors, so the demand is growing.
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China's coal is located in the north and west of the country, far from the coastal cities where energy demand is growing strongly.
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He's also looking in the Northeast and Midwest, where demand is growing, and banks, which loaded up on power-generation assets, seem eager to unload.
Even today, prices continue to fall and demand is growing steadily.
He notes that it will take time to rebuild spare production capacity, especially when world oil demand is growing by 2m bpd or more a year.
So while the world is not running out of hydrocarbons immediately, global energy demand is growing too fast to satisfy without serious price pressures and geopolitical tensions.
Ryanair's expansion is expected to have taken place by 2018 and the company said if demand kept growing it could build further on the order with another.
Furthermore, while his company already sees that business in the United States and Western Europe is weakening, demand is growing strongly in Asia and the Middle East.
That something is strong demand from growing nations like China.
If Nigel Lawson, a former British chancellor, had known in the late 1980s that demand was growing faster than the official figures showed, he might have tightened policy sooner.
And it comes at a time when demand is growing from factors such as the ageing population, development of new treatments and rise in conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.
An initial probe showed demand was growing in China.
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All in all, supply will lag demand, growing only 2.2% annually on average through 2014, and peaking in 2017-2018 at about 250 million popunds, after which it will begin to fall.
Although global demand is growing, our research shows that at the retail level this is a very local business, in which the store network, branding and promotions must be tailored to local preferences.
The International Development Committee (at 9.30am) ponders the threat of a global food security crisis caused by rising demand, growing populations, climate change and environmental problems. witnesses include NGOs, food policy experts and economists.
While the Kingdom is the world's largest oil exporter, power demand is growing approximately 8% per year, prompting authorities to investigate alternative sources of power, that can ease the demand on its primary source of income.
The first is that demand keeps growing.
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As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
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