Operator BAA also has three times as many staff ready to clear snow compared with last year.

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No disaster like Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion but nevertheless destined to sell at 10 times flattish earnings, just another electronics hardware operator.

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French operator SFR claims laptops equipped with a dongle use 450 times more bandwidth than a classic mobile phone.

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Am I the only operator who believes General Motors is worth more than 3.5 times enterprise value?

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Japanese operator NTT Docomo has successfully tested uplink packet transmissions at an uber-fast 10Gbps, hundreds of times quicker than the 4G services only just beginning to roll out across North America and Europe.

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