UES, tried to sell generators on the cheap to well-connected local tycoons.

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And when the state did eventually sell control early last year, western companies were scorned in favour of a well-connected local businessman, Gabor Szeles.

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But geography was no obstacle to two well-connected local Christian Democrats who delighted their constituents by getting the town included in the fund's remit.

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Instead, Cooper argued that mobile networks should be using access point base stations, or femtocells: broadband-connected local cell stations that beam cell signals over focused areas inside of buildings.

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We, the people, are opposed to draining billions of dollars of state and local education money to well-connected data-driven vendors who sell smoke and mirrors.

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However, when such switches are inter-connected the underlying communication protocols can disturb local traffic and more importantly fall-short of scaling this performance to devices connected multiple hops away.

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Local people are well aware of the involvement of well-connected businessmen in the new hotels.

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The dongle connects to the web via local 3G networks and can be connected to up to five internet-enabled devices.

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Good news for all you socially connected (and hip) regulars of local retail establishments -- who have PS Vitas, of course.

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In Singapore, consumers have historically had to pay up to .085 cents a minute for local telephone calls - Starhub gets a cut of that revenue for every minute its customers spend connected to the Web, since they must get there by placing a local call.

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