It was surprising quick to load pages on the 2G connection, and the benefits of that compression were apparent when pointing to full desktop sites.

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"Thus, promising jobs for everyone in months, ending corruption in 90 days, and a quick end to load-shedding are the kind of promises that no government will be able to fulfil in a jiffy, " Mr Haider adds.

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In addition, the in-game load times are very quick once you get through the insanely time consuming install process, that is.

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Pogue found himself longing for the days of dial-up, while waiting 1-2 minutes for popular sites to load, and while WiFi was quick to save the day in many instances, that's hardly an excuse in the year 2007.

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Last week Barclaycard and Orange announced that credit or debit card holders from all UK banks would be able to load money onto Barclaycard's mobile payments application, in the Quick Tap wallet.

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