Using gathering infrastructure that is shared across several smaller-scale biogas producers linked via a pipeline network to an upgrading facility, upgrading costs can be defrayed among all producers.
Google said it would start upgrading the network as soon as the acquisition was closed.
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Network Rail is also upgrading the line from London Paddington to the west country and South Wales in readiness for electrification.
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Verizon also is upgrading its network to a higher-speed technology, so Apple has said it believed CDMA was a short-term technology.
"We need to do that by upgrading our network and trying to maximise capacity in our existing network on the mainland, " he added.
It is cutting prices (but not as hard) and upgrading its congested network (but not as fast).
The build-out will continue through 2013, at which point the company expects to complete upgrading its 3G network to 4G, said Melone.
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Mr Galan, who is addressing the Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conference in Edinburgh, outlined progress in upgrading the electricity network which the company said would lead to the creation of 1, 500 jobs.
The focus of the plan is on upgrading the existing CDMA network while providing technology flexibility for the Sprint 4G platform.
The government is massively upgrading the public transportation network (see a map of the planned subway expansion) as part of this expansion of Greater Beijing.
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"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture that enables independent upgrading of compute, network and storage subsystems that will define the future of mega-datacenter designs for the next decade, " said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer during his keynote address at Open Computer Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Early on, Comcast was upgrading its Tupelo, Mississippi, network from three to five channels.
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Google said that it would be upgrading an already-existing fiber network in Provo that does not offer gigabit speeds, by purchasing iProvo, a fiber-optic network owned by the city.
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The money will be spent on improving car parks, providing better facilities for cyclists and upgrading toilets at 56 stations across the train network.
One - upgrading the crossing so that it has a locally monitored automatic barrier - has already been investigated by Network Rail.
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