Today T-Mobile's 3G high-speed data network is available in more than 273 U.S. cities covering more than 206 million people.
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On Thursday, Colt Telecom announced it had been awarded the multi-million pound contract to provide the high-speed data network that will make the system possible.
"T-Mobile has been an important source of competition among the national carriers, including through innovation and quality enhancements such as the roll-out of the first nationwide high-speed data network, " said Sharis A. Pozen, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
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The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
In exchange for funding the WiMax joint venture, the cable companies would get equity in the business and would be able to purchase wholesale access to the network to offer their own high-speed wireless data and voice services to customers, the people familiar with the discussions said.
T-Mobile will bulk up its U.S. wireless network starting this quarter and will sell high-speed data services beginning next year, company execs said Friday.
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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All you have to know is that Watson is not connected to the Internet, contains more than ten trillion bytes of data and operates the equivalent of 2, 800 computer nodes on an ultra-high-speed network.
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From downloading files to streaming video or surfing the latest social networking sites, T-Mobile's faster network provides a richer-than-ever mobile data experience, with anytime high-speed access to the data and information customers need and desire.
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For the main arteries of its network, SpeedNet will use 64, 000-kilometres of Tepco's high-speed data links, which are strung along the streets and railway lines of greater Tokyo, sharing poles and conduits with its electricity cables.
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