But without more spectrum, the whole enterprise of building the digital infrastructure could slow.
The digital infrastructure is the wellspring from whence emerges the new domains of nanotechnology, with possibilities potentially as radical as the earlier emergence of silicon devices themselves.
Investors should be looking at companies today that have the ability to transform an industry from analog to digital or have the ability to create the infrastructure to facilitate digital properties or transactions.
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We have been able to harness the existing digital infrastructure to get personalized health data we did not have access to before.
Ultimately, updating the City's digital infrastructure for the 21st century sets the foundation for innovation that will continue to move us forward.
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While the data are hard to find and isolate for just the U.S., which remains the dominant home for the infrastructure of the digital economy (for now), the global trends are indicative.
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Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
Despite the setback, officials from the Department of Commerce and the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, along with security experts from Microsoft, Cisco and other companies, said Thursday that they are making progress on a plan for cooperation and collaboration in the effort to protect the nation's digital infrastructure.
Bridge the digital divide by developing adequate infrastructure, in particular, affordable broadband connectivity, widespread mobile technology and reliable electrical power supply.
Earlier in the debate Mr Neil told MSPs the Scotland's Digital Future Infrastructure Action Plan would deliver a "world class" digital infrastructure for Scotland.
There is still a need for cash, and it seems implausible that the infrastructure that makes digital transactions possible will be reliable enough to be completely trusted for a long time.
While CSPs may not be built from the ground up for the digital age, they can partner with software and infrastructure providers to help power the next business revolution with M2M technologies.
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The missing link is this: In our new world of an embedded digital infrastructure that connects all of our lives, the power of connectional intelligence holds exponential, and previously untapped, potential for breakthroughs in ways we can barely begin to imagine.
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Little doubt remains that the Stuxnet worm represents one of the most sophisticated digital attacks on critical infrastructure systems that cybersecurity researchers have ever seen.
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The United States is an increasingly digital nation where the strength and vitality of our economy, infrastructure, public safety, and national security have been built on the foundation of cyberspace.
Despite all of our efforts, our global digital infrastructure, based largely upon the Internet, is not secure or resilient enough today and future purposes.
"This programme will focus on supporting our colleagues to deliver consistent friendly expertise backed by major improvements in store environments, plus building on the authority of our offer, infrastructure and digital capabilities, " he said.
This is a major step in the City's overall strategy to modernize its digital infrastructure to increase transparency and foster data-driven innovation, both internally and through civic partnerships.
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For this reason, the administration is pursuing a comprehensive cyber security approach to securing our digital infrastructure.
But what is the role for communications players in developing digital services to ride across that infrastructure and leverage their customer bases and brands?
Other than advancing broadband infrastructure, the growth of online games coincides with the increasing pervasiveness of digital payments.
The actual divide is between those with this infrastructure, who can make use of digital technologies, and those without.
This fundamental reliance is why our digital infrastructure is a strategic national asset, and why today I joined leaders from the Department of Homeland Security, members of Congress, and leaders from across New York and financial world to support National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) and the Stop.
Gigabit Squared is a digital economic development corporation specializing in the planning, implementation and roll-out of IT-enabled infrastructure.
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Its most immediate challenge is from the cable industry, which has invested heavily in its infrastructure and is now offering a bundle of digital television, broadband and voice service.
Marks said the proliferation of digital goods, such as online games, would boost PayPal, which can license its payment infrastructure to developers and media companies.
Every time we send more young people to university, every time we invest more in our new digital infrastructure, every time we increase support to our scientists, we demonstrate our faith in the future.
The KAUST Library emphasizes support for "e-science" through its digital repository, web-based services, data curation, and full exploitation of the University's extraordinary IT infrastructure.
The infrastructure and capital investment secretary said the ambition was for a "society that takes full advantage of the digital age" and would therefore ensure Scotland would "prosper economically, socially and culturally".
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