Failing to do so will result in massive degradation in service quality to consumers, whether it is through explicit use of data caps or through network congestion that results from a lack of funding for network expansion.
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But the lack of local network build-out has provided a major speed bump.
The small outfit also could play a key role in a virtual retail strategy for Goldman, whose lack of a network of retail brokers was seen as a liability when the firm went public last year.
McBride thinks the lack of access to NFL Network in much of Los Angeles is particularly detrimental to the league, since the lack of a franchise there increases demand for other games.
Network managers attribute some of the network rage to a lack of basic knowledge about computers.
Scotland's lack of a television network is "bizarre", SNP Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop has claimed.
Network engineering is not a glamorous profession, and the physical structures of the greatest network ever built lack the grandeur of a hydroelectric dam or a continent-spanning railway.
And despite (or perhaps because of) this lack of governance, the network has proved surprisingly resilient.
The network's lack of reality stalwarts became particularly visible--and damaging--during last season's writers' strike.
Chief among the difficulties cited was a lack of tools to properly monitor the network.
Yet it would have made no sense to punish the entire banking network for a lack of confidence.
Officials with the U.S. training command blamed insufficient staff and the lack of a "fully operational distribution network" for the poor record-keeping, the GAO report states.
That and the lack of additional radio spectrum, which network operators would be willing to license from U.S. taxpayers for billions of dollars if only it could be pried from the clutches of less-efficient users, including the federal government itself.
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For example, in Uganda, mobile-network providers cite a lack of infrastructure for not establishing services in some areas.
Other providers of internet services, such as AOL, have complained bitterly that they are not able to offer the services customers want because of the lack of access to BT's local network.
All attempts to develop Afghanistan as an agricultural exporter suffer from fundamental difficulties: lack of fertiliser and pesticides, a poor road network, shortages of electricity and cold-storage depots, and only rudimentary packaging.
Villages and rural communities lack economies of scale and are incapable of delivering the same network effects as cities.
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Still, the network's current lull is not for lack of trying.
Examples around the world suggest that financial capital alone may not be sufficient to spur effective entrepreneurship among people who may lack business acumen, a vetted opportunity, and a network of advisers.
Clearwire had to stop its network build-out last year due to a lack of cash to complete it.
To date such a network has not emerged due to a combination of a lack of vision and a lack of radio spectrum.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, though -- beyond the lack of hot hardware, rural carriers are struggling to find a way to pay for network upgrades that'll get them in line with what the rest of the world's up to.
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Rai's lack of interest in reality TV is in stark contrast to the broadcast philosophy of Silvio Berlusconi's network.
Stanford University researchers have suggested that a lack of response to emotionally meaningful information in the insula, a brain region at the hub of the salience network, can lead to a cascade of effects that result in inappropriate emotional displays.
"One of the primary barriers to mainstream adoption of connected TVs has been the lack of good content, " said Rob DelaCruz, General Manager, Connected TV and Mobile Video, The AOL On Network.
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