Huawei now commands a premium for some of its higher-end cellular network base-stations that combine old and new networks in one small unit, the executives said.
Instead, Scaglia has chosen to collaborate with AEM, the recently privatized Milanese electrical utility, to build a home- base network alongside of AEM cables in and around Italy's richest city, Milan, which accounts for 30% of the country's telecom spending.
They can thus be found inside network routers, telecoms switches, mobile-phone base stations and many other devices that need both the processing speed of specialist hardware and the ability to respond to changing standards.
An airliner with 500 phones on board, whizzing across a city, would befuddle the network as the phones busily hopped from one base-station to the next.
"We've shrunk a 30-foot base station into a three-inch Raspberry Pi and created our own mobile phone network, " said PA's Frazer Bennett.
America operates a spy network there and recently launched a special-forces commando raid from its base in nearby Djibouti to free an American citizen from Somali brigands.
The analyst adds that the number of subscribers is likely to fall during the period when Clearwire overlays its network with TDD-LTE and Sprint repositions WiMAX devices into the prepaid base.
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It's unclear whether Mr. Santorum can use success in Iowa to build a fund-raising network and breadth of support, beyond his social conservative base, that he will need to stay strong in the weeks ahead.
Likewise, with a small initial consumer base, CO-OPs may struggle to obtain a large network of providers or remain financially sustainable.
Also important, this processing power combined with advanced digital radio interface and signaling capabilities enables small-cell base stations to operate in a more efficient and dynamic mesh network, as opposed to a relatively static, point-to-point macro only system.
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Although Facebook has the user base and Web-based engagement that most social companies dream of, the network is lacking the type of consumer behavior that is easily monetized in later cycles of purchase intent.
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In the maturing Russian market, it has shifted its focus from growing the subscriber base to increasing ARPU. Next year's launch of its third-generation broadband network will expand value-added services and should boost ARPU even further.
If this was a social network or an online supermarket, it would perhaps be more of a major shock to the consumer base - many of whom would be less au fait with the realities of online content than console owners.
"As alleged, Ahmed Abassi had an evil purpose for seeking to remain in the United States -- to commit acts of terror and develop a network of terrorists here, and to use this country as a base to support the efforts of terrorists internationally, " said Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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