Northern Gas Networks said it was replacing ageing metal gas mains with plastic equivalents to "reduce gas leakage and enhance network reliability".
The project also includes significant improvement in customers' 3G network experience, including expanded coverage, improved network reliability, better voice quality, and faster 3G data speeds.
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Sprint's Network Vision project also includes significant improvement in customers' 3G network experience, including expanded coverage, improved network reliability, better voice quality, and faster 3G data speeds.
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All this requires improved network reliability and speed.
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As Network Vision continues to rollout across the country, Sprint customers can expect to see significant improvement in their 3G network experience, including expanded coverage, improved network reliability, better voice quality, and faster 3G data speeds.
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All Sprint 3G customers in these areas, including the company's prepaid customers on Assurance Wireless, Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, can expect to see better coverage and improved network reliability and voice quality once the improvements come to their areas.
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In addition to T-Mobile customers experiencing speeds twice as fast as T-Mobile's current 4G network on compatible devices, customers also will enjoy increased network capacity and reliability.
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Yet another is that managing one's own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability.
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The standard enables consumers and service providers to combine the capabilities of otherwise disparate networks to maximize a home network's overall performance and reliability.
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As this is being written, massive outages in its service are spreading throughout the network, whose rock-solid reliability kept many IT leaders from being willing to make a switch.
Now, both current and new Comcast customers in Atlanta will have the option of building a great in-home experience through our Xfinity services, along with the reliability of Verizon Wireless' network while on-the-go.
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"What's unique about the pay phone network in New York is that the reliability of service is overwhelming -- and not just in hurricanes, " said Izzo, citing the blackout of 2003 and the chaos of Sept. 11, 2001.
"We felt that a person who could think of doing this 27 years ago obviously had tremendous faith in the reliability of the Indian railway network and we felt that we needed to acknowledge that and respond to it adequately, " said Shanti Narain, a member of the Indian railway board.
Network Rail said it had worked hard to improve reliability and capacity and was now looking at "enhancement" through new services and facilities.
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The contract for the ADS-B ground station network requires continual independent validation of the accuracy and reliability of ADS-B and aircraft avionics signals.
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Google has long backed network neutrality, whose proponents typically argue that all Internet traffic on a network should be delivered at the same speed and reliability.
With the creation of the first-ever, wholesale-only nationwide 4G-LTE network integrated with satellite coverage, LightSquared offers people the speed, value and reliability of universal connectivity, wherever they are in the United States.
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In addition to just network connectivity, they have outstanding expertise in large scale service delivery with high reliability and global reach, plus an arsenal of partners for content, apps, specialized solutions and services, integration, as well as terminal and module vendors.
"We've been testing BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 in our environment and we're pleased with the manageability, security and reliability that the solution offers, along with expanded management capabilities to other devices within our network, " said Peter E.
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