They must sell public cloud compute IaaS as a stand-alone service, without the requirement to bundle it with managed hosting, application development, application maintenance or other outsourcing.

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At one stage in the ceremony all ex-Wildlife Service staff were asked to stand, and I must admit that there was a huge swelling of pride in doing so and in the knowledge that we were once part of a very elite group of people.

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This may change in the future, and certainly cord-cutting is on the rise, but at the present there is no incentive for HBO to worry about piracy or to offer a stand-alone service.

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He also criticised the BBC for coming at every question from a pro-public service point of view, and not doing enough to stand up for the interests of taxpayers.

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And he told me that BT's boasts about its fibre service didn't stand up either - BT Infinity, offering 20-30Mbps should not be compared to Virgin's 50Mbps product.

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China Telecom is looking to tap into the high-end segment as it attempts to drive further adoption of its stand alone wireless service.

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Ruckus Wireless, the Wi-Fi networking company she helped start in 2004, set out to change that, working to show that Wi-Fi could stand up to the demands of everyone from enterprise customers to broadband service providers.

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