Next I approached the consortium of South West trusts who are actually trying to implement these freedoms.

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Within the next few years, the consortium will issue standards for both hardware and software.

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Although we'll have to wait until the second half of the year before HMC 1.0 products appear in earnest, the Consortium already has a next-gen blueprint due in early 2014 that should nearly double individual data link speeds (from 15Gbps to 28Gbps).

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For its part, Airbus is struggling to turn itself from a consortium into a proper company by next year.

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StarHub Internet is owned by the StarHub consortium, which will become Singapore s second basic telecommunications services provider in April next year.

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