The emphasis is both on reliability as well as economics and speed of service.
Rogoff has had an instrumental role in advising policy makers on the operating and capital needs of Amtrak, including the initiation and financing of high speed Acela service, as well as the financing of dozens of new light rail and bus rapid transit systems across the United States.
The speed of Exede Internet service makes it very competitive with wireless home broadband service as well as legacy DSL and many cable services.
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But achieving speed and friendliness of service across the chain has been a particularly elusive goal, at least in part because about 90% of McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. are owned by independent operators.
Re-train their employees not just on these new processes and how to use the technology at their disposal, but on the speed and kind of service the new customer demands, whether that service is being delivered digitally, on the phone, or in person.
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China, where service began just two years ago, may have more miles of high-speed rail service than any other country just five years from now.
"To return to a 'Bridgnorth ambulance' would in fact be very detrimental to the speed and quality of the service, " the spokesman added.
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As our printing solution provider and other successful transformers in the services industries have shown, getting this formula of speed, well-defined value propositions and service monetizing technology into place for a targeted part of the business is key to launching a company-wide transformation.
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Aircell's program with NetJets represents the largest order for high-speed Internet service in the history of business aviation.
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With a downstream speed of up to 38Mbps, this service will compare very well with the 30Mbps service offered by Virgin Media given the upstream speeds will be considerably faster than those offered by the latter.
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Recently, SNCF has announced their low cost service of high speed trains (TGV) that operate in the axis Paris-Lyon-Marseille-Montpellier that will contribute to multiply considerable the volume of expected passengers for the next year, and consequently, the potential WiFi users in the station of St Charles.
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He cited the switch from hand-pulled espresso machines to the automatic variety, which helped to speed up service but diminished the spectacle of coffee-making.
The prime minister has asked the head of the Civil Service to speed up the inquiry into the working relationship between Doctor Fox and his friend, Adam Werritty, who has business interests in the defence industry.
The high-speed Eurostar and Thalys trains idled part of their service through Brussels as transport workers walked off the job.
The cable industry has been successful so far poaching voice customers from phone companies with one-bill bundles of TV service, high-speed Internet access and cheap, all-you-can-eat VoIP.
Line sharing is the practice of one carrier running high-speed DSL service on a phone line while a second carrier supplies regular phone service on the same line.
Baker, 39, moved to a larger house with all the amenities, but his experience underscored a simple fact that most city-dwellers ignore: Even in a prosperous country like Britain, hundreds of thousands of people still lack high-speed Internet service, particularly in rural areas, where homes are just too far from telephone exchanges to get a megabit connection.
Even mighty SBCCommunications, Efficient's largest customer, seems to be losing some of its enthusiasm for the high-speed Internet service.
Manber and others at Google have tested our experiences of search, and found that nearly imperceptible improvements in speed affect the way we feel not just about the service, but also about the quality of the results.
Between New York and Washington the train dominates, with 75% of the market, including via its high speed Acela service.
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Consumers are continuing to show the importance of higher speed tiers for their needs by migrating their service plans to those tiers.
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If one technology does one aspect of broadband service better than another, like speed, that technology must be a monopoly not a competitive broadband service.
It boosted the growth at two of his businesses, Health Plans Today (a marketer of health insurance) and Speed Anywhere (a broadband buying service).
Despite falling prices for high-speed bandwidth and wireless service, telecom budgets keep growing because of increased usage and new services such as virtual private networks, voice-mail storage and Web hosting.
As this technology is deployed, convenience, ease and speed of installation, performance and reliability will soon be hallmarks of DSL service.
Meanwhile, the entry into service of Virgin Rail's new high-speed tilting trains on Britain's London-Glasgow line was marred by delays and cancellations: plainly Euston had a problem.
He estimates that 4G service is equivalent to four times the speed and efficiency of 3G while mobile data traffic, according to companies like Cisco, is expected to multiply by more than 20 times over the next few years.
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Little surprise, then, that the vast majority of households have only one or two options for high-speed broadband service.
Maryport Inshore Rescue Service (MIRS) operates one high-speed boat independently of the RNLI in an around the Solway Firth.
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