By rolling out the higher speed networks, the government hopes to boost the take-up of telemedicine, home working and cloud computing.

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This comes as the carriers are rolling out high-speed 4G networks, and U.S. mobile users are developing a strong taste for data-intensive services like streaming media.

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India's tablet computer market is still nascent compared with other parts of the world but is growing, with telecommunication companies rolling out high-speed Internet networks using third-generation and fourth-generation communication technology.

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Earlier this year Hitachi confirmed a factory in County Durham would build rolling stock for high-speed trains.

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Once the snowball starts rolling, it picks up speed a frightening pace.

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But soon afterwards rolling official results, announced with unusual speed, showed him far behind with only a third of the vote.

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In contrast, the subjects of my first booth visit were moving at top speed, navigating around obstacles and even rolling up slopes.

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The FTC is concerned the high-speed cable systems that Time Warner is rolling out across the US, covering 20% of the population, will only be available to AOL users.

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The new service rolling out across the UK should give users a realistic peak speed of 10.8Mbps, says the company.

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First unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last month, Verizon is pimping V CAST as a new multimedia service for the high-speed EV-DO wireless network they're currently rolling out in different cities across the country.

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