These projects will improve local and regional connectivity and provide more transit choices for residents and commuters.

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These projects will improve local and regional connectivity, providing for the safe and efficient movement of people, goods and services.

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Because we have the screens, processing power, and battery life to make tablets much more capable than was possible only a few short years ago, and because today these tablets will support wireless broadband as well as local and wide-area connectivity.

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Neil McLean of Leeds City Region, a local enterprise partnership, said the improved connectivity would be a "transformational shot in the arm to the economic fortunes of the North".

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This means agencies could power their communication system in the field using an improvised local network if a disaster wipes out Internet connectivity, electricity, or both, like Hurricane Katrina did along the Gulf Coast.

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Namma Diwani Local ICT Network (Budikote, KolarDistrict, Karnataka India) combines a radio studio, an audio cable network that delivers radio to local households, and a telecentre with computers, internet connectivity and other multimedia tools.

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The higher costs and higher latency of on-line storage will likely drive continued efforts to create local storage options for tablets, despite the architectural difficulties with iPad connectivity.

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If there was ever need for proof, the Great Recession, and the speed with which an essentially local crisis in the US has spread around the world, offered unequivocal evidence of the level of connectivity among countries.

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