In a competition where speed is everything, every additional gram of weight is a disadvantage.
Nothing like a little competition to speed an industry's maturation.
And trust fuels the engine that produces the speed businesses require to outperform the competition.
The combined company would also be able to better invest in services like high-speed Internet access, adding to competition in that market.
Why should competitors build innovative, ultra high-speed fiber networks that would provide real competition when the government is giving them a break on copper wire?
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It is ideal terrain for airlines: a region dominated by sprawling archipelagoes, where planes therefore face little competition from roads and high-speed trains, as they do in Europe or America.
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That would shine a spotlight on erstwhile monopolists, speed integration and give consumers the benefits of full competition now.
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In theory, he says, location should no longer be a source of competitive advantage in an era of global competition, rapid transport and high-speed telecommunications.
Jeffords' move could doom a major piece of House legislation, the Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001, which would allow the Bells to offer high-speed Internet access without first opening their markets to local competition.
It found that 2003 was a good year for consumers, with competition driving down the cost of a high-speed net connection over the phone line via ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
Things like connectivity, printing, passwords, and application requests all are close to being automated today, but they will get better as time progresses, and real competition from Microsoft and Google in this area will speed things along.
When a company in a particular industry shows a business advantage based on the flexibility and speed of cloud infrastructure and uses that advantage to pummel the competition the rest of the industry will be forced to follow.
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In France, rail operator SNCF is preparing for increased competition by launching the first ever low-cost, high speed train.
Europe's telecoms companies need to speed up their networks and be prepared for consolidation in the industry and competition from abroad, the EU's technology chief said.
As a result of all of this competition and new technologies, DNA sequencing has gotten cheaper with incredible speed.
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Changing markets, competition, regulations, products, channels, customer compliance, etc. make speed and agility essential.
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On its own merits, the sport has the speed, strength, intensity and sex appeal to drive solid TV ratings, especially against soft competition during the summer sports calendar that really only features baseball.
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Hitachi trains are the front-runner in the competition to replace all of the UK's fleet of inter-city high-speed trains.
The intensifying competition from emerging economies makes flexible labour and product markets even more imperative, so as to speed up the shift from old industries to new ones.
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