So the council is gradually working to remove the stones from the busier stretches of road - laying tarmac to ease and speed the traffic.

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Verizon has led from the front in laying out a nationwide high-speed LTE network and is therefore likely to see its subscribers migrating off 3G sooner than most.

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Until now, the solution for greater speed has been to simply keep laying more fiber optic lines.

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So we now have projects in 31 states that are laying the ground for the first high-speed rail network in the United States of America.

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