Still, the widespread cellphone service outages in Manhattan showed that America's wireless networks remain vulnerable in emergencies despite a half decade of efforts to shore them up.
Widespread cellphone service outages across the region hit by Sandy, with some carriers performing better than others depending on the location, are giving those debates new urgency.
The National Weather Service has predicted widespread white-out conditions that will impede drivers' visibility.
This was despite a widespread campaign to boycott the service in favour of other sites such as Flickr or Starmatic.
The widespread replacement of fee-for-service medicine with managed care led to a period of much lower health care cost growth.
So far, they have been short on details, but some say they could adapt their business models to offer widespread mobile TV and even wireless broadband service if technical and regulatory hurdles are removed.
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The service didn't have the widespread impact that Google expected, however, so it's taking Health offline after the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2012.
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Apple in the past several months bought and then shut down online music service Lala.com, prompting widespread speculation it might also soon launch a new cloud-based version of its iTunes music store.
Google knows what we want to know, and builds its search engine around those requests, but that service covers those of us in rich countries with widespread access to PCs and broadband.
Allied Veterans was founded in 1979 and evolved from a charitable organization that ran bingo games and held bake sales for veterans to a group suspected of widespread illegal gambling around Florida, according to an Internal Revenue Service affidavit.
For it to become widespread requires a good deal of infrastructural development, the creation of profitable service offerings that are affordable and practical to users and devices that consumers can buy as easily as they do a Wi-Fi card now.
Now that restaurants are a far more significant part of the service industry than ever before, the repercussions from any slowdown will be more widespread.
The meager valuation reflected widespread doubts about a quirky company trying to make money renting DVDs with a monthly subscription service that delivered the discs through the mail.
The industry's leading trade group, the National Association of Campus Stores, tested a Web-site hosting service for independent campus stores at five schools for several months and announced a widespread rollout of the program set for spring.
Mr Dalziel said it was clear there was an absence of even reasonably-safe working conditions, widespread organisational failure and that it was "systemic" and "deep seated" within the service.
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The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, meaning that significant and widespread damage and fatalities were likely.
As in-room connectivity becomes more widespread, what was once seen as a distinctive feature to attract discerning customers is increasingly regarded as a necessary service.
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