The European Commission's annual progress report on Turkish membership said Ankara has made some improvements on handling of human rights but said Turkey needs to speed up reforms to boost its chances of joining the bloc.

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According to NSN, they have network equipment that can boost the speed of 4G many times faster.

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Once completed, U-verse will reach 33 million homes and will boost Internet speed to as high as 75 Mbps.

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This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York.

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