And it will narrow the openings for competitors like Amazon, DISH, Comcast, and potentially, Apple and Google, which might take the forced customer transition as an opportunity to poach Netflix customers.

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If other businesses do not also upgrade their networks to support IPv6, Internet users and devices will be forced to go through transition gateways to reach IPv6-enabled websites and devices.

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By taking a risk with its EE ruling, it will have forced the whole mobile industry to focus on a faster transition to 4G.

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Mr Wahid's friends, however, also include the demonstrators who confronted the army when ex-President Suharto was forced to step down in 1998, and during the subsequent transition to democracy.

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Bhutto said she tried to allay Washington's concern about what would happen to this nuclear-armed nation if Musharraf were forced out, saying she shared the Americans' misgivings and that a strategy for an orderly transition was a must.

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