Corporations embraced them until they missed their next generation transition.

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The next transition to 4th Generation (Long Term Enhanced) LTE capability is going to be expensive and time consuming for all involved.

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The longer the transition to the next generation takes, the longer the industry will have to wait before things pick up again.

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Total business data revenues grew 2.0 percent year over year, continuing the transition from legacy data products to next-generation data services.

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The transition from one generation of consoles to the next is always painful, though this time around the launch of new portable game devices by Sony and Nintendo has helped to prop up software sales and mask the decline in sales of games for fixed consoles.

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At the heart of this transition is a technology called HTML5, which is the next-generation web language that is a part of many mobile app and content developers roadmaps today.

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